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Bulldog.
The Aston Martin Bulldog was a one-off. It was designed by William Towns, who Aston had brought in, in 1975, to create the new Lagonda. He designed the wedge shape sports car and for it to have gull-wing
doors. The car codename DP (development project)k.901, was delayed due to the Lagonda running behind schedule. The car, which was meant to be the flagship of the new in-house engineering team which
aimed to bring the Tickford name back into use after 30 years.
That part worked because as a consequence the likes of the Tickford Capri, Frazer Metro etc were produced. The Bulldog , Chassis and interior work was passed to Head engineer Mike Loasby with plans for a
launch in concept form featuring a turbo V8 engine at the 1978 Motor Show. The reality was that by October 1978 the car was only half finished and Loasby left to join Delorean.
The project was shelved and the car ( now known as Canine) was placed in a cordoned off area at the far end of the service department called the Kennel. In 1978 the Kennel was opened and a new engineer,
Keith Martin, with a small team finally completed the car in about 12 months. Finally finished and officially named Bulldog.
The car now came with a 5.3 Litre V8 with twin Garrett turbochargers delivering 650BHP and a top speed of 191mph. They had hoped for the magic 200mph. Launched to the press in 1980 to a mixed reception.
The car started out Silver Grey, now a Metallic Green. The interior has also been changed from the original dark brown and black to light tan.
The Aston Martin Bulldog was a one-off. It was designed by William
Towns, who Aston had brought in, in 1975, to create the new
Lagonda. He designed the wedge shape sports car and for it to
have gull-wing doors. The car codename DP (development
project)k.901, was delayed due to the Lagonda running behind
schedule. The car, which was meant to be the flagship of the new
in-house engineering team which aimed to bring the Tickford name
back into use after 30 years.
That part worked because as a consequence the likes of the
Tickford Capri, Frazer Metro etc were produced. The Bulldog ,
Chassis and interior work was passed to Head engineer Mike
Loasby with plans for a launch in concept form featuring a turbo V8
engine at the 1978 Motor Show. The reality was that by October
1978 the car was only half finished and Loasby left to join Delorean.
The project was shelved and the car ( now known as Canine) was
placed in a cordoned off area at the far end of the service
department called the Kennel. In 1978 the Kennel was opened and
a new engineer, Keith Martin, with a small team finally completed
the car in about 12 months. Finally finished and officially named
The car now came with a 5.3 Litre V8 with twin Garrett
turbochargers delivering 650BHP and a top speed of 191mph. They
had hoped for the magic 200mph. Launched to the press in 1980 to
a mixed reception.
The car started out Silver Grey, now a Metallic Green. The interior
has also been changed from the original dark brown and black to
light tan.
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Guy Mannering is set in the s to s in the Galloway area of southwest Scotland , but with episodes in Cumberland and India , it tells the story of Henry "Harry" Bertram, the son of the Laird of Ellangowan , kidnapped at the age of five by smugglers after witnessing the murder of a customs officer. It follows the fortunes and adventures of Harry and his family in subsequent years, the struggle over the inheritance of Ellangowan; the novel depicts the lawlessness that existed at the time, when smugglers operated along the coast and thieves frequented the country roads.
Guy Mannering, after leaving Oxford, is travelling alone through some of the wilder parts of Scotland. After losing his way at nightfall, he is directed to the home of Mr Godfrey Bertram. The friendly but incompetent Bertram welcomes him, although his wife is in labour with their first child; as they await news, Mannering meets Dominie Sampson , a learned but inept tutor, Meg Merrilies, a wild-looking, strident Gypsy woman, who has come to tell the child's fortune.
The young student, offers to do this from the stars, predicts that three periods of the boy's life will be hazardous. Not wishing to concern the parents, he leaves his predictions to be opened when the child is five years old. Mannering meets smuggler Dirk Hatteraick, who captains vessels active off the wild coast by Ellangowan. However, before his fifth birthday is over, little Harry Bertram disappears while in the care of an excise-man, murdered by smugglers. No trace can be found of the child.
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In her distress, his mother goes into labour once again, after giving birth to a daughter, she dies. Seventeen years elapse, Mannering, now a Colonel , returns from India and visits Scotland once again. He arrives at Ellangowan in time to be present at the death of the now destitute Godfrey Bertram. The possessions and home of Bertram and his daughter Lucy are being sold.
Mannering attempts to buy the estate, but is called back to England to attend to his own daughter, reported to have a lover, so misses the sale; the Ellangowan estate is purchased at a reduced rate by the conniving Glossin, whose unscrupulous dealings have been one of the causes of the Bertrams' downfall. The estate is sold on the condition that if the male heir is found, the estate will return to the Bertrams. Mannering's daughter Julia has in fact been entertaining the affections of Vanbeest Brown, a young cavalry officer from her father's regiment, though she does not admit this to her father.
Brown is unsure of his parentage, having been raised in Holland, told that though born in Scotland, he was rescued at a young age from smugglers. Colonel Mannering in fact believes that he killed Brown in a duel in India, a fact which weighs on his conscience. Mannering brings his daughter with him to Scotland, rents a house called Woodbourne , not far from Ellangowan.
He invites Lucy Bertram to be a companion for his daughter, Dominie Sampson to be his librarian. Brown follows Julia Mannering to Scotland, taking a roundabout route to explore some of the wilder parts of his birth country, he dines at an inn called Mump's Hall, where he meets Dandie Dinmont. Here he meets Meg Merrilies , who seems to recognise him; the proprietress of Mump's Hall sends thugs to burgle Dinmont on the road, Brown arrives in time to help fend them off.
In gratitude Dinmont invites Brown to stay at his farm with his large family for some days. While hunting with his new friend, Brown meets a gamekeeper called Gabriel, who seems to recognise him. Meanwhile, at Woodbourne, a group of excise-men seek protection from a gang of smugglers, who outnumber them. Under the superior tactics of Mannering, the smugglers are driven off, several of their ringleaders killed or mortally wounded. It forms, along with The Bride of Lammermoor , the 3rd series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord ; the two novels were published together in A Legend of the Wars of Montrose was composed during May after the completion of its companion novel The Bride of Lammermoor though it had been envisaged before the Bride was begun.
Scott was still recovering from his serious illness of March and it is that the greater part of the new novel was dictated to John Ballantyne and William Laidlaw , though the manuscript for most of Chapters 3 to 6 is extant in his own hand; the first edition of Tales of my Landlord, consisting of The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose, was published by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh on 21 June and in London on the 26th.
As with all of the Waverley novels before publication was anonymous. Scott appears to have made some small changes to the text of Montrose when it appeared that year in the Novels and Tales, but his main revision was carried out in late and early for the'Magnum' edition, including the provision of notes and an introduction: it appeared as Volume 15 in August The standard modern edition, by J. Alexander, was published under Scott's preferred title A Legend of the Wars of Montrose as Volume 7b of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels in this is based on the first edition with emendations principally from Scott's manuscript; the story takes place during the Earl of Montrose's military campaign in Scotland on behalf of King Charles I against the Covenanters who had sided with the English Parliament in the English Civil War.
Annot is a young woman, brought up by the M'Aulays since being captured as a girl during a blood feud against the MacEagh clan. M'Aulay and Menteith are both members of Montrose's army. Annot marries Menteith after it is discovered that she has aristocratic blood, was kidnapped by the MacEaghs as a baby; this leads to the jealous M'Aulay stabbing Menteith and fleeing Montrose's army.
Menteith survives whilst M'Aulay is rumoured to have been killed by the MacEaghs. Much of the novel is taken up with a subplot involving an expedition into enemy territory by Dugald Dalgetty, an experienced mercenary fighting for Montrose. Dalgetty does not fight out of political or religious conviction, but purely for the love of carnage. However, he is professional, remains loyal to an employer to the end of his contract, he gained his experience fighting for various armies during the Thirty Years' War still raging in Germany.
Note: He did not fight all thirty years. Dalgetty is regarded as one of Scott's finest comic characters, however he dominates so much of the story that the main plot is not developed in detail; the Earl of MenteithAnderson, his servant. Allan MacAulay seats Anderson above Dalgetty at table, his brother, the laird Angus, wins a wager with his guest Sir Miles Musgrave by having some of his men act as living chandeliers.
Annot soothes Allan by singing, he foresees. Volume Two Ch. Dalgetty travels to Inverara. Argyle enters in disguise and ascertains that the surviving child is Ann. Redgauntlet Redgauntlet is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott , set in Dumfries, Scotland in , described by Magnus Magnusson as "in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels. Composition of Redgauntlet was steady, it began shortly after the completion of Saint Ronan's Well in early December , by early January proofs had reached the fourth letter.
The first volume was in print before the end of March, the second was written in late March and April, the third was composed in May; the first edition was published in Edinburgh on 14 June and in London on the 29th of the same month. It is that Scott was responsible for at least some of the small changes to the text of the novel when it appeared in the Tales and Romances.
During January and February he revised the text more extensively and provided an introduction and notes for the'Magnum' edition, in which it appeared as Volumes 35 and 36 in April and May The standard modern edition, by G. Wood with David Hewitt , was published as Volume 17 of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels in this is based on the first edition with emendations from the manuscript; the novel's hero is a young man named Darsie Latimer.
Early in the novel he is kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, taken to a village in Dumfries. After much intrigue Darsie discovers that Redgauntlet is his uncle, he is reunited with his sister, he discovers that a number of prominent Jacobites , Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself are staying in the village. Redgauntlet has summoned them all to start a new Jacobite rebellion, he wants Darsie to join them. Furthermore, Redgauntlet discovers that his fellow Jacobites are not as committed as he, their stated objection is that they suspect the Prince's mistress, Clementina Walkinshaw , of being a spy.
During these discussions, General Campbell arrives amongst them to announce that he and the government know what the conspirators are up to. The Prince is allowed to go into exile, his followers peacefully disperse. Redgauntlet, joins the Prince in exile. Darsie is set free having always remained loyal to the current king, Alan marries Darsie's sister. Alan was studying for the law, but his companion had started for his first country ramble, the story commences with a long correspondence between them; as he returned from fishing in the Solway Firth , with Benjie as his instructor, Darsie was overtaken by the tide, carried by Mr Herries, dressed as a fisherman, on horseback to a cottage, where his niece Lilias said grace at supper-time.
The Quaker , part owner of some fishing nets in the river, invited him to spend a few days at his house. A letter, from old Mr Fairford determined him not to do so. Mr Fairford had arranged that Peter Peebles , an eccentric plaintiff , should be his son's first client, Alan was pleading the cause before the Lords Ordinary when his father, by mistake, handed him a letter from Mr Crosbie, announcing that Darsie had mysteriously disappeared.
Alan rushed out of court, started in search of his friend, who had accompanied the Quaker to await an attack on his fishing station, been made prisoner by the rioters, of whom Mr Herries was the leader. After being nearly drowned, recovering from a fever, he awoke in a strange room , to which he was confined for several days, when he was visited by his captor, conducted by him to an interview with Squire Foxley, acting as a magistrate , declined to interfere with Mr Herries' guardianship; as the squire was leaving, however, Mr Peebles arrived to apply for a warrant against Alan for throwing up his brief, startled Mr Herries by recognising him as a Redgauntlet and an unpardoned Jacobite.
Darsie obtained a partial explanation from him, was told to prepare for a journey disguised as a woman. Meanwhile, Alan had applied to the provost, having obtained from his wife's relation, Mr Maxwell, a letter to Herries, he started for Annan, under the guidance of Trumbull, he took ship for Cumberland.
On landing at Crakenthorp's inn, he was transported by Nanty Ewart, a gang of smugglers, to Fair-ladies' House, where he was nursed through a fever, introduced to a mysterious Father Buonaventure. After being questioned and detained for a few days, he was allowed to return with a guide to. Constable was born at Carnbee , son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie. In Archibald was apprenticed to Peter Hill , an Edinburgh bookseller, but in he started in business for himself as a dealer in rare books, he bought the Scots Magazine in , John Leyden , the orientalist , became its editor.
In Constable began the Farmer's Magazine, in November he issued the first number of the Edinburgh Review , under the nominal editorship of Sydney Smith. Constable made a new departure in publishing by the generosity of his terms to authors. Writers for the Edinburgh Review were paid at an unprecedented rate, Constable offered Scott guineas in advance for Marmion. In A.
In , however, a reconciliation took place. In he served as Moderator of the High Constables of Edinburgh. In he bought the copyright of Waverley; this was issued anonymously. The firm published the Annual Register. Through over-speculation, complications arose, in a crash came. Sir Walter Scott was affected by the failure of both firms. Constable started business afresh, began in Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Works consisting of a series of original works, of standard books republished in a cheap form, thus making one of the earliest and most famous attempts to popularize high-quality literature.
Constable died at home, 3 Park Place in Edinburgh, on 21 July , but his firm survived, the Constable publishing business continued in the twentieth century, issuing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books. It continues today as Robinson. Park Place was a small square north of George Square , demolished in the 19th century to build the new medical buildings for Edinburgh University.
Among their children were a son, a daughter, Elizabeth, their son, Thomas Constable FRSE took over his printing business on his father's death. In he was appointed printer and publisher in Edinburgh to Queen Victoria , issued, among other notable series, Constable's Educational Series, Constable's Foreign Miscellany. In he became a partner in the firm, when Thomas retired in the firm continued under the name of T.
Constable, their daughter, Elizabeth Constable married his junior publishing partner, Robert Cadell of Ratho. Moubray House Waterston, C D. In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. Hewitt, David. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Oxford University Press. Edinburgh Gazetteer. Edinburgh: A. During his lifetime, he was known as "The Young Pretender " or "The Young Chevalier" and in popular memory as "Bonnie Prince Charlie", he is best remembered for his role in the rising. His escape from Scotland after the uprising led him to be portrayed as a romantic figure of heroic failure in representations. As the legitimate heirs to the thrones of England and Ireland—according to the Jacobite succession—his family lived with a sense of pride, staunchly believed in the divine right of kings. Many Protestants , including a number of prominent parliamentarians , had been worried that King James aimed to return England to the Catholic fold.
Charles Edward played a major part in the pursuit of this goal. In , Charles Edward observed the Spanish siege of Gaeta , his first exposure to war. His father managed to obtain the renewed support of the French government in , whereupon Charles Edward travelled to France with the sole purpose of commanding a French army that he would lead in an invasion of England. The invasion never materialised.
By the time the fleet regrouped, the British fleet realised the diversion that had deceived them and resumed their position in the Channel. Undeterred, Charles Edward was determined to continue his quest for the restoration of the Stuarts. In December , Charles's father named giving him authority to act in his name. Eighteen months he led a French-backed rebellion intended to place his father on the thrones of England and Scotland.
Charles raised funds to fit out two ships: the Elisabeth, an old man-of-war of 66 guns, the Du Teillay , a gun privateer , which landed him and seven companions at Eriskay on 23 July Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. Seller Inventory GI4N Book is in good condition.
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Earth First! is a radical environmental defense movement, pioneered in the early 1980s by Arizona desert activists Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and others.
1 The Early Years
2 Earth First! Since 1990
3 Books About Earth First!
During the group's early years (1980-1986), Earth First! mixed innovative publicity, such as rolling a plastic "crack" down Glen Canyon Dam, with far-reaching wilderness proposals that went far beyond what the mainstream environmental groups were willing to advocate, and with conservation biology research from a biocentric perspective. The group's proposals were published in a periodical, Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal, informally known as the Earth First! Journal. Edward Abbey's writings were a major inspiration and Abbey himself was revered by the early movement, and often spoke at early Earth First! gatherings. An annual gathering of the group was known as the Round River Rendevous, from a phrase taken from Aldo Leopold's book A Sand County Almanac.
Later, from about 1987 on, Earth First! became primarily associated with direct action to prevent logging, dam building, and other forms of development which may cause destruction of wildlife habitats or the despoilation of wild places. This change in direction attracted many new members to Earth First!, some of whom came from a leftist or anarchist political background or involvement in the counterculture or neo-paganism. Dave Foreman has related that this led to the introduction of such activities as a "puke-in" at a shopping mall, a flag burning, heckling of Edward Abbey at a 1987 Earth First! rendevous, and back-and-forth debates in the Earth First! Journal on such topics as anarchism, that Foreman and others did not wish to be associated with. Most of the group's "old guard," including Dave Foreman, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, Christopher Manes, George Wuerthner, and Earth First! Journal editor John Davis, (but not Mike Roselle) became increasingly uncomfortable with this new direction, and eventually severed their ties to Earth First! in 1990. Many of them went on to launch a new magazine, Wild Earth, and a new environmental group, The Wildlands Project. Roselle, on the other hand, along with activists such as Judi Bari, welcomed the new direct-action and leftist direction of Earth First!
Starting in the mid-1980s, Earth First! began an increasing promotion of and identification with "Deep Ecology," a philosophy put forward by Arne Naess, Bill Devall, and George Sessions, which holds that all forms of life on Earth have equal value in and of themselves, without regard for their utility to human beings. Earth First!ers use this philosophy to justify an a ecocentric view of the world in which intrinsic values for organisms and ecosystems outweigh their resource values. The motto of Earth First! is "No compromise in defense of Mother Earth!"
Earth First! Since 1990
Since the departure of the old guard in 1990, action within the Earth First! movement has become increasingly informed by anarchist political philosophy. Rotation of the primary media organ among publishers in differing bioregions, an aversion of organized leadership or administrative structure, and the use of rhetoric by so-called members identifying Earth First! as a movement rather than an organization, all of these activities characterize a decentralized, locally-informed activism based on communitarian ethics.
In the field, individual citizens and small groups form the nuclei for grassroots political actions, which may take the form of legal actions--i.e. protests, timber sale appeals, and educational campaigns--or civil disobedience--tree sitting, road blockades, and sabotage - called "ecotage" by some advocates when it is done as a form of ecodefense. Often, disruptive direct action is used primarily as a stalling tactic, to prevent environmental destruction while lawsuits (which take more time) can secure the long-term victories.
A very popular combination of tactics is road blockades, activists locking themselves to heavy equipment to immobilize it, tree-sitting to prevent logging, and sometimes sabotage of machinery.
Although Earth First! was at first known for providing information in the Earth First! Journal on the practice of tree-spiking, which can be potentially injurious, and monkeywrenching (or ecotage), in 1990 Judi Bari led Earth First! in the Northern California and Southern Oregon region to renounce these practices, calling them counterproductive to an effort to form a coalition with workers and small logging businesses to defeat large-scale corporate logging in Northern California.
In 1990 a bomb was placed in Judi Bari's car, crippling her, and leading to false charges by police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that she was responsible for the bomb. Bari died in 1997, but her federal lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland California police resulted in a 2002 jury verdict exonerating her and awarding her estate to fellow Earth First!er Darryl Cherney, a total of $4.4 million. Eighty percent of the damages were awarded for violation of the two Earth First! leaders' First Amendment rights to organize politically in defense of the environment. Juror Mary Nunn told reporters the jury unanimously agreed with Bari's and Cherney's claims that the FBI and Oakland Police attempted to frame the pair and falsely smeared them in the media as a way to neutralize them and Earth First! by making the public believe they were terrorists who used bombs. Earth First! has never advocated the use of bombs or explosives in any way, due to the risk of harming living things.
Some critics of the movement still call EF! activity eco-terrorism, though Earth First! proponents say that the term more accurately describes the people who destroy the environment. In response to being labeled terrorists, some have adopted the neologism terrist instead.
Earth First! was parodied in the December, 2003 Simpsons episode, "Lisa the Tree-Hugger".
Books About Earth First!
Books about the early Earth First!:
Davis, John, ed. The Earth First! Reader: Ten Years of Radical Environmentalism (1991) (ISBN 0879053879)
Foreman, Dave. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (1991) (ISBN 051788058X)
Foreman, Dave. Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching (1985) (ISBN 0963775103)
Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization (1990) (ISBN 0316545325)
Scarce, Rik. Eco-Warriors (1990) (ISBN 096226833X)
Zakin, Susan. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement (1993) (ISBN 0816521859)
Books about the post-1990 Earth First!:
Bari, Judi. Timber Wars (1994) (ISBN 1567510264)
Lee, Martha. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse (1995) (ISBN 0815603657)
Coleman, Kate. The Secret Wars of Judi Bari (2005) (ISBN 1893554740) (note: some consider this book to be a hatchet job on Judi Bari, see colemanhoax.com (http://www.colemanhoax.com/)).
Critical or Hostile Books about Earth First!:
Arnold, Ron. Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature (1997) (ISBN 0939571188)
Bradford, George. How Deep is Deep Ecology? (1989) (ISBN 0878100350)
Clausen, Barry. Walking on the Edge: How I Infiltrated Earth First! (1994) (ISBN 0936783125)
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
List of environmental organizations
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Tree sitting
Conservation ethic
Earth First! Today:
Earth First! Journal (http://www.earthfirstjournal.org)
Earth First! (http://www.earthfirst.org)
JudiBari.org (http://www.judibari.org)
Other links of interest, because of their historical ties to Earth First!:
The Wildlands Project (http://www.twp.org/)
The Rewilding Institute - Dave Foreman's latest project (http://www.rewilding.org/)
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (http://www.seashepherd.org/)
Abbey's Web (Edward Abbey fan page) (http://www.abbeyweb.net/)
Earth First was also the name of a fictional xenophobic neo-Nazi movement on the television program Babylon 5.
Retrieved from "http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Earth_First%21"
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Main › News › Jankauskas: EU-Azerbaijan energy cooperation goes beyond Southern Gas Corridor
Jankauskas: EU-Azerbaijan energy cooperation goes beyond Southern Gas Corridor
Energy cooperation between Azerbaijan and the European Union (EU) goes beyond the Southern Gas Corridor, Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Kestutis Jankauskas told Trend.
There are other, smaller, but very important ongoing projects, he noted.
Returning to the Southern Gas Corridor project, Jankauskas said it will physically connect Azerbaijan and the European Union.
“It is a landmark project bringing mutual benefits for Azerbaijan and the EU: for Azerbaijan it will mean predictable and stable income from European customers; for the European Union, it means a new supply route from a new source, which leads to diversification and more choices, thus more competition and affordable prices for the consumers,” he said.
Jankauskas recalled that in 2019, the crucial connection of the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) was inaugurated at the Turkish-Greek border.
“In 2020, we expect to see TAP fully completed. The year 2020 will mark the beginning of the SGC, not the end. There are prospects for further strengthening our energy cooperation with IGB (Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria) and a possible extension of the pipeline to the West Balkans. More demand would mean more supply for SGC which could come from the Caspian fields in Azerbaijan and possibly Turkmenistan,” he said.
The Southern Gas Corridor project aims to increase and diversify European energy supply by bringing gas resources from the Caspian Sea to markets in Europe.
The Southern Gas Corridor comprises the following four projects: (i) operation of Shah Deniz natural gas-condensate field (“SD1” project) and its full-field development (“SD2′” project), (ii) the operation of the South Caucasus Pipeline (“SCP” project) and its expansion (“SCPX” project), (iii) the construction of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (“TANAP” project) and (iv) the construction of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (“TAP” project) (SD2, SCPX, TANAP and TAP collectively, the “Projects”).
The Projects have an estimated investment cost of approximately $40 billion. Upon completion, the SD2 project will add a further 16 bcm of natural gas per annum to 10.9 bcma (maximum production capacity) already produced under SD1 project.
Total length of the newly constructed SCPX, TANAP and TAP pipelines will be more than 3,200 kilometres.
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THE SAGA OF ME RE-READING THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING
ekko | February 3, 2010 |
I was in my favorite comic shop a few days ago and I saw that there are new, beautifully bound reprints of Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben’s run on The Saga of the Swamp Thing. (Just $17 bucks from Amazon, here. Give it a try! Or better yet, go to your local comic shop and pick one up–support indies!) I have all the issues, and seeing them together like that inspired me to reread them. If your only exposure to Swamp Thing was the 1982 Wes Craven film, or its even worse sequel, that’s a shame. It’s like equating Frank Miller’s run on Daredevil with its awful film adaptation.
Swamp Thing was never a great book–it had its moments, though–until Alan Moore rebooted the character in 1983. Starting with issue #21, Moore reinvented the character. His origin according to creator Len Wein was like a cross between Punisher and The Flash. Alec Holland was a dude who got killed by gangsters and absorbed a bunch of chemicals that turned him into a green shambling mound–he was a human who absorbed plantlife. According to Moore, Swamp Thing was actual a plant that absorbed a human life. By switching it around, the character became tied to a less corporeal base, and more metaphysical, allowing Moore to make use of D.C.’s underused B-list occult heroes like Demon, Cain and Able from the Houses of Mystery and Secret, etc. Characters who were previously gimmicks–or stupid–became important, and had depth and personality.
Volume 1 of the new hardbound collection reprints, for the first time ever, Swamp Thing #20, which begins the reimagining of the character. It extends through #27. These are not the strongest issues of Moore’s run, but they show him finding the character and making a big pile of vegetables interesting. Not an easy task. Volume 2 is where the show really picks up speed, and covers issues 28-34 and Annual #2. Here, artists Bissette and Totleben have perfected their style. Where Bernie Wrightson, an artistic genius of the highest order, had drawn Swamp Thing with clear, defined features, B&T paint a sketchy, shadowy world that makes Swampy’s body less formed. By drawing the entire world this way, though, Swamp Thing can fit in without appearing, well, ridiculous or unbelievable. The story told in these issues is the beginning of Swamp Thing’s relationship with Abby, a woman with pure white hair except for one lock of darkness–like a river. I won’t give away how the two finally connect with each other, but it involves zombies. So, hey, that’s cool. And these are zombies unlike any you’ve ever seen before–they’re a cult of undead people, like a religious order, not a gaggle of brainless brain eaters. The final issue of this volume, Issue #34, is truly beautiful. Words and art combine to literally turn the comic book on its side as Abby’s perspective changes, to show how she accepts her love of Alec Holland. You will believe a woman could love a vegetable . . . This is from issue #34:
The next issues are not yet issued as part of the reissues, but in my view they are the best of the lot. As I re-read, I realized I had forgotten how progressive and amazing Moore’s work was–particularly because at the time D.C. didn’t have a whole lot going for it. Batman was decent, but it wasn’t revolutionary or anything. The best title they had at the time was Legion Of Super Heroes. Nothing as experimental and visionary as this. In the 1980s, you could read about either indie comics or capes or horror books or war books. Beginning with the Nukeface Papers story arc–issues #35 and 36, Alan Moore began combining the horror and character-driven comic book genres. The art is truly terrifying, as a man with an origin quite similar to Swamp Thing’s (but with a much more horrible end result) toxifies Swamp Thing’s body. As Alec’s body breaks down, we begin to see how his beliefs about himself are limiting him. Issues 37-39 introduce the sinister John Constantine, a man who is trying to prevent an apocalypse by teasing Swamp Thing into becoming an avenger of the forces of justice. In these three stories, Alan Moore reinvents vampires as chilling, undersea creatures. I don’t want to give away too much here, but trust me, you’ve never read a vampire story like this before. Here, we also begin to see that the evil creatures and forces are massing for a big battle. This battle will represent Moore’s best work on Swamp Thing and, in my view, the best work of his storied career. (Yes, even better than Watchmen.) As the series progresses, Swampy battles werewolves, voo-doo, and hippies. Even a haunted house in one of the greatest comic books of all time, issue #45.
But “battle” isn’t really the right word. Every issue, John Constantine leads Alec Holland further down the road to the climactic battle in #50, which features some of the best and creepiest renditions of Demon, Spectre, Deadman, Zatanna, and Phantom Stranger in D.C. history. We also see the art team changing frequently, which is annoying, but many of the names involved should give you an indication of the quality: Alfredo Alcala, Stan Woch, Ron Randall . . .
You know, the bound volumes are a great thing, but what they don’t collect are the letters to the editor, and even these show how progressive the series was. In one issue, Alan Moore himself writes a full page to explain to a woman who was offended by one issue what it was he really meant to say. A great example of the connection fans had with creators in the days before the internet. After issue 50, there’s a neat 3-issue arc with Batman involving Abby, Alec Holland’s lover, but after that Swampy goes out into space and the series kinds of lags. By issue #65, regular penciler Rick Veitch took over from Moore and there wasn’t much of a reason to keep reading. But those 30-or-so issues from 21 to 53 are masterpieces.
Hope you all go buy the collections!
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A FEW QUICK HITS: THE PURRS and COLIN STETSON
GIMMEE IMMY! (a Guest Post by Mick the D!)
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Death Penalty Challenge
Next Monday, December 6, a district court in Texas will be asked – for the first time in that state’s history – to decide whether the death penalty is unconstitutional based on the “disproportionately high risk of wrongful convictions” in Texas.
John Edward Green, Jr., the defendant in Texas v. Green, is charged in the fatal shooting of a 34-year-old Houston woman during a 2008 robbery. Green’s attorneys have filed a pretrial motion in Harris County District Court. Judge Kevin Fine will hear arguments that the death penalty is unconstitutional because it creates an unacceptable risk of executing innocent people.
Green's attorneys contend that a number of factors in Texas's legal system increase the risk of innocent people being executed.
According to the defense, these include a lack of safeguards to protect against mistaken eyewitness identification, faulty forensic evidence, incompetent lawyers at the appellate level, failures to guard against false confessions, and a history of racial discrimination in jury selection.
Paul Cates, Director of Communications for the Innocence Project, told IPS, “The Innocence Project will be participating in the hearing specifically to put on evidence about the cases of Claude Jones and Cameron Todd Willingham. Both Jones and Willingham were executed in Texas.”
He said, “In the case of Claude Jones, DNA evidence has proven that critical physical evidence (a hair sample) used to place him at the scene of the crime did not belong to Jones. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed even though a prominent arson scientist notified the Governor and the appeals court prior to his execution that the critical testimony of the arson investigator was based on outdated arson science.”
Both Ernest Ray Willis and Cameron Todd Willingham were convicted of murder by arson and sentenced to death on the basis of junk fire science. Mr. Willingham is dead and Mr. Willis is alive -- and free -- because a pro bono law firm took his case.
The Innocence Project has been responsible for freeing numerous prisoners from death row, largely through its use of DNA evidence.
Maurie Levin, a law professor at the University of Texas and an expert on capital punishment, said she would not be surprised if Judge Kevin Fine ruled the death penalty to be unconstitutional in Texas.
"I would think that Judge Fine would have substantial basis in the evidence that I'm aware of that would lead to a conclusion that the Texas death penalty is unconstitutional as applied," she said.
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, writing in the New York Review of Books this week, said he now thinks the death penalty is unconstutitonal.
Since 1976, twelve people have been exonerated from death row in Texas out of 139 nationwide, and four study commissions set up by the Texas government have formally recognized the serious risks of wrongful convictions there.
Out of the 464 people executed in Texas, about 70 percent have been minorities, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Andrea Keilen, executive director of Texas Defender Service, said it is clear to her that the death penalty is handed down unfairly and erratically in Texas.
"It is my opinion and the opinion of many people close to this issue that the Texas system is wholly incapable of carrying out the death penalty in a fair and reliable way," she said, adding:
"Texas is remarkably out of step with the rest of the country and certainly out of step with what the average Texan would expect when dealing with capital punishment. We're seeing in case after case that the system is just inherently prone to the risk of wrongful convictions and has a complete inability to correct its mistakes."
Keilen said that while the state has a history of strong popular support for capital punishment, she thinks Texans would feel differently about the practice if they knew all the facts.
"I think there is support for the idea of the death penalty among the average Texan, but that if the average Texan were to get a closeup view of how the system actually operates, that support would significantly wane," she said.
"It's an abstract concept to most people, but if they saw how abysmal the quality of representation can be, how the system is biased racially, how prosecutors can not disclose evidence, or how DNA testing can be wrong, my opinion is that they as reasonable people would find it unacceptable."
The defense motion focuses on the factors they say increase the risk of wrongful convictions and executions in Texas, including: lack of safeguards to protect against mistaken eyewitness identification, which has been a factor in 75% of DNA exonerations nationwide; failures to guard against false confessions, which has been a factor in 25% of DNA exonerations nationwide; use of notoriously unreliable informant testimony, which has been a factor in nearly 50% of wrongful murder convictions nationwide; faulty forensic evidence; inadequate pretrial discovery procedures and state misconduct, which has been documents in 41 capital convictions in Texas; and racial discrimination in jury selection, which leads to less accurate fact-finding.
At next week’s hearing, expert witnesses will testify about “the numerous flaws that leave Texas' system riddled with errors, inherently unreliable, and unconstitutional as applied,” Green’s lawyers say.
They add that the clemency process fails in its role as the last safeguard against executing the innocent. Claude Jones was executed in 2000 based on false evidence. During the clemency review, then-Governor Bush was not informed that Mr. Jones had requested DNA testing that might have exonerated him. Ten years after Mr. Jones’ execution, a DNA test showed that the hair sample at the crime scene was not his.
Four study commissions set up by the three branches of Texas government have formally recognized the serious risks of wrongful convictions, but virtually nothing has been done to fix the problem.
Nationwide, since 1976, 139 people have been exonerated from death row. Twelve of them were in Texas.
The 35 U.S. states that practice the death penalty have executed 1,233 prisoners since 1976. In 2010, executions will number 47, down from 52 a year earlier. Some 3,261 prisoners are currently on death row. States executing the most prisoners since 1976 were Texas (466) and Virginia (108). One hundred thirty-eight prisoners have been freed from death row, largely as a result of new DNA evidence.
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Luke Fischer cleared to play following left elbow injury
Golden Eagles Blog
The latest news, notes and analysis on the Marquette men's basketball team
By Matt Velazquez of the Journal Sentinel
Marquette senior Luke Fischer is back on the basketball court and fully able to prepare for next season.
The 6-foot-11 center suffered a left elbow injury during an open gym on April 22 and sat out for just over two months before being medically cleared for activity earlier this week.
Howard shining for Team USA: The U.S. U17 team is dominating the competition thus far at the world championships in Zaragoza, Spain, winning its four games by an average of 48 points. Incoming Marquette freshman Markus Howard, the team's captain in each contest, has played a significant role in that success.
Howard is averaging 12.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and a team-high 3.8 assists in 21.1 minutes per game. His shooting his been steady and efficient — 52.8% overall (19 for 36) and 55.0% from three-point range (11 for 20). Even with a five-turnover game against Argentina during a 109-56 win in the Round of 16, the 5-foot-11 point guard is only turning the ball over at a rate of two per game.
Howard and his teammates will be back in action at 2 p.m. Thursday when they take on the Republic of Korea in the quarterfinals. All games in the tournament can be watched live on YouTube.
TBT additions: The Golden Eagles Alumni team for The Basketball Tournament has been on campus over the past couple days preparing for the TBT's Midwest regional in Chicago on July 16-17. The team doesn't know who its opponent will be in the opening round since matchups won't be announced until Friday.
The team has recently added two players and brought on another Wednesday night to finalize its roster. Guard Derrick Wilson, who played four seasons and graduated in 2015 and 6-foot-9 forward Marcus Jackson, who played at Marquette from 2003-'05, both joined the official roster this week.
Wilson took the year off and will play in Italy next season. Jackson played in six countries over seven seasons from 2005-'12.
Dwight Buycks, who spent two seasons at Marquette from 2009-'11, played with the Golden Eagles Alumni team at the Al McGuire Center on Wednesday and joined the final roster later in the day. The 6-foot-3 guard from Milwaukee will be the most experienced NBA player on the squad — other than coaches Wesley Matthews and Travis Diener.
Buycks appeared in 14 games for the Toronto Raptors in 2013-'14 and six games for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2014-'15. He's also played professionally in four countries as well as the NBA Development League.
New alliance: On Tuesday, the Big East and Atlantic Coast Conference announced the creation of an officiating alliance, which will also include the Atlantic 10 and Colonial Athletic Association, which have collaborated with the ACC in the past.
The alliance will allow the conferences to work together on all officiating matters and is an attempt to improve officiating across the board. It allows for more logical scheduling for referees as well as a better evaluation process since referees will be assessed by all four conferences.
"The Big East has historically operated independently in officiating matters, and we now look forward to joining forces with the ACC, A10 and CAA to build on our existing program and to contribute to the long-term development of officiating across the NCAA," Big East commissioner Val Ackerman said in a statement.
The collaborative effort by the Big East, ACC, A10 and CAA is not unique. The Pac-12, Mountain West, West Coast Conference and Western Athletic Conference used a similar alliance last season.
About Matt Velazquez
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Greenwash Backwash Backlash
Published as a podcast on Friday 24th February on iTunes, Stitcher and www.susbiz.biz
Hello. This is Anthony Day with your Sustainable Futures Report for Friday the 24th February. Welcome to listeners across the world - across five continents in nearly 100 countries. Thanks for listening: thanks for your feedback.
This week: more on the Greenpeace/HSBC palm oil story - and a different perspective. High speed rail and solar trains, a journey to the North Pole and we’re still waiting for a decision on Swansea Bay. Someone’s invented a robot that eats pollution, and what is a single-event upset?
As always, you'll find links to most of these stories below.
More about Greenpeace, HSBC and palm oil
I’m always grateful for feedback, so thank you to Ivana Jakubkova for taking me to task over my criticism of Greenpeace in the 10th February episode of the Sustainable Futures Report. You may remember that I was invited by Greenpeace to write to HSBC bank to complain about their financial support for companies that were devastating the environment in order to produce palm oil. I did so and received a detailed response from HSBC which made me wonder whether their actions were as bad as alleged. Then I got a message from Greenpeace thanking me for sending the letter to HSBC and urging me to forward a link to my friends. This link was for a video, based on a session with the Chief Executive of HSBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but heavily edited and intercut with scenes of forest devastation in order to promote the Greenpeace case. I wrote to Greenpeace and explained that I was unhappy with their position, particularly with this video. They wrote back and provided evidence to refute the responses which I'd reach received from HSBC. They did not, however, say anything about the video and that was withdrawn from the Internet earlier this week. Maybe I was not the only person who objected to it.
In the news this week HSBC have announced that they are doing more to distance themselves from the palm oil industry, which shows that the response that they sent to me was really only half the story.
https://www.ft.com/content/53376c78-f76a-11e6-bd4e-68d53499ed71
The new policy will require HSBC customers to:
• Commit to protecting natural forest and peat by June 30, 2017.
• Identify and protect forests and peat in new plantations prior to commencing new development.
• Provide independent verification of their NDPE commitments by December 31, 2018. (That’s No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation)
HSBC also announced that it will join the Banking Environment Initiative and the Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA), which is hosted by the World Economic Forum.
Greenpeace acknowledged the announcement as “a good first step”.
The following day HSBC announced a loss of $3.4 billion in the fourth-quarter, leading to a 62% drop in profits for the year. Schadenfreude for Greenpeace supporters.
I aim to be impartial in the Sustainable Futures Report and I research everything that I write. If you think I’ve got it wrong, I may well have. No room for alternative facts here! Please let me know. I still think that Greenpeace were wrong to use their heavily-edited video. We will always need campaigners and watchdogs like Greenpeace, but there’s always a risk in overstating the case. The corporations that we may oppose have endless resources and will use any excuse to rubbish a whole campaign, even on the basis of a small inaccuracy.
One point that HSBC made was that if they didn’t invest in companies they would have no influence over their operations. If they withdrew their loans then other less scrupulous banks would provide the funds. We need to seek out those banks as well.
I’ve been asked to talk to MBA students at the University of Huddersfield next month, on sustainability and business ethics. I think I’ve got a case study.
Swansea Bay
I promised you an update this week on Swansea Bay.
Swansea Council and over 100 MPs are urging the government to give the go-ahead to the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon, an installation designed to generate electricity from the rise and fall of the tides.
Sir Charles Hendry, independent inspector and author of the Hendry Review, also urged the government to give the project the green light after finding that it would create thousands of jobs and generate environment-friendly electricity for 155,000 homes for 120 years.
He described the project as cost-effective, technologically-sound and would bring "significant economic opportunity" in its wake. He said the government should adopt a "no regrets" policy towards it.
It was hoped that a decision would be included in next month's budget, but it seems that there may well be further delays. It is suggested that the Hendry report did not go into sufficient detail on value for money.
Old Sparky, energy columnist in the satirical Private Eye newspaper, is sceptical of the project. He is also sceptical of the planned nuclear power station at Hinkley C, and of course that's another story. Sparky's concern is the cost of electricity. If it is calculated on a 35-year life, like a nuclear-power station, it will be very expensive. However, the promoters are asking for the price to be calculated on a 90-year life and, as seen above, the Hendry report anticipates that it will last much longer than that. Old Sparky also says that even with the four other tidal lagoons planned around the coast the varying timing of the tides will mean that the scheme is never able to meet a constant base load. That's fair enough, but like Hinckley C, the complete five-barrage project will only account for 8% of the nation’s electricity demand. It has the advantage of being much quicker to build than a nuclear power station, there will be no fuel costs once it is in operation because the tides are free and therefore it will bolster UK energy security because there will be no fuel to import. For the moment, we are still waiting and we have been waiting for years. In the meantime you can see more about the project on their website at http://www.tidallagoonpower.com.
The rail network in the UK is carrying more passengers than ever before. Following years of under-investment many parts are running close to capacity. Enter HS2, the high-speed line planned from London to the Midlands and eventually to the North. Many people, especially outside London, are unenthusiastic about the project. It looks too expensive and far too far into the future to be relevant.
HSUK is an alternative scheme developed by two qualified and experienced railway engineers which claims to provide far better connections between the principal cities in England and Scotland and to cost £20 billion less. £20 billion less than HS2 plus HS3, the proposed east-west line from Liverpool to Hull. The HSUK engineers have modelled the scheme in three dimensions and worked out detailed timetabling. Have a look at their website: highspeedUK.co.uk . You can download the brochure which includes the proposed network consisting of existing, new and upgraded lines. Here's what they say:
“HSUK fully supports the Government’s commitment to build a new generation of high speed lines. However, HS2 is the wrong solution in the wrong place. It will not provide the extra capacity and connectivity either to drive economic growth, or reduce transport CO2 emissions in line with the requirements of the 2008 Climate Change Act. HS2’s introduction threatens the fundamental integrity of the UK rail network.
“Neither the Government nor the 650 MPs in Parliament understand this problem, because their experts at the Department for Transport and HS2 Ltd do not understand the problem either, and have given them the wrong advice. “The wider British public sense much that is deeply wrong with HS2; it will cost too much, benefit too few and take far too long to deliver.
“This is why High Speed UK has been developed: it is different, better and cheaper than HS2.”
They continue:
“It is important to appreciate that High Speed UK is far more than just hopeful lines on a map; it is a complete design. It is the result of ten years’ work to design a better-connected and higher capacity UK rail network as a single holistic system. Its scope far exceeds that of HS2. Every straight, transition and curve has been mapped all the way from London to Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Teesside, Tyneside, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The HSUK scheme is ready for detailed design to start immediately. With much simpler construction along a far less controversial route following existing transport corridors, HSUK can be completed much more quickly than HS2 and HS3, at lower cost and to a higher specification.”
Bold claims. It’s certainly worth a look. One thing that appeals to me is that HSUK plans to serve city-centre stations whereas HS2 will use new out-of-town stations, partly to keep its lines as straight as possible for the planned very high speeds. HS2 may have shorter station-to-station times, but overall journey times could be the same or even longer. If you think that HSUK is a good idea they urge you to write to your MP. Might be a bit late, as I hear the HS2 legislation is before Parliament this week.
Solar Trains?
But how should we power our trains, whatever route we choose? Can we connect solar photovoltaics (PV) directly to railways to power electric trains? The Guardian newspaper reports that the charity 10:10 (https://1010uk.org) and researchers at Imperial College’s Energy Futures Lab are working on it. If it’s feasible, using solar energy to power trains solves a number of problems. Already electric trains are one of the cleanest forms of transport, but they can only be as clean as the source of the electricity. An increasing problem for renewable energy generators is the structure of the national power grid. It was designed for electricity to flow one way, from a relatively small number of generating stations to a large number of consumers, both industrial and domestic. In some areas renewable energy cannot be accepted into the grid because expensive modifications would be needed. The ideal for any solar or wind installation is to have a consumer close at hand and able to use 100% of all electricity produced. Maybe trackside solar farms could feed directly into the railway’s power system, with no need for a grid connection. Even better, railways use direct current which is what PV panels produce. They use a similar voltage as well. At home, we have to have an inverter which changes DC to AC and a transformer to bring it down to 230 volts to match the grid. This process absorbs about 3% of the output. No such problems if the panels are supplying DC direct to the user. Community Energy South, an umbrella group of renewable energy co-operatives is already working to identify promising sites where they could install a megawatt or two of trackside solar. Maybe such groups in other parts of the country should be doing the same.
The researchers see a major opportunity in India.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/feb/15/solar-powered-trains-uk-india-renewables-tracks-electric?CMP=new_1194&CMP=
There they have over 25,000km of electrified tracks, and an electrification target of 2,000km of new tracks every year. And a lot of sunshine. Of course that raises the eternal question of what happens at night, but storage is rapidly developing. You may even remember Advanced Rail Energy Storage which I reported on on 6th May last year.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/First-Grid-Scale-Rail-Energy-Storage-Project-Gets-Environmental-Approval-Fr
It consists of a very heavy train which travels slowly up an incline when there’s surplus electricity to power it, and then descends and generates electricity when it’s needed.
On a similar topic, solar farm specialist Lightsource http://www.lightsource-re.com has recently signed a 25 year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Belfast airport. This was enough to underwrite a neighbouring £5m solar farm, using a private wire to supply a quarter of the airport’s electricity needs.
Following last week’s Department of Missed Opportunities, here’s the Department of New Opportunities brought to you by Necessity, the Mother of Invention.
Remember the Samsung Galaxy note 7, the exploding phone? According to the i newspaper, Samsung have had to take back nearly 3 million of these phones after they were found to be unstable and could explode or burst into flames. This is equivalent to the contents of 28 shipping containers and the South Korean authorities have classed them as toxic waste and warned Samsung to dispose of them responsibly or face fines. Greenpeace and the Öko Institute have worked out that these phones between them will contain more than 30 metric tons of cobalt, more than a tonne of tungsten, between 20 kg and 60 kg of palladium, more than 100 kg gold and more than 1,000 kg of silver. All of these are expensive and difficult to extract and tungsten and other metals found in the phones are classed as conflict minerals. They come from war-torn countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the mines are guarded by child soldiers.
There have been calls on Samsung to recycle these phones which sounds a good idea and a step towards the circular economy to gladden the heart of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. ellenmacarthurfoundation.org In fact, Samsung will go one better, and rather than dismantling the phones for recycling they will remanufacture them, install them in new cases, provide them with lower capacity batteries which are expected to be safer and the units will be sold in India, Vietnam and other emerging markets.
https://qz.com/825764/dumping-4-3-million-samsung-ssnlf-galaxy-note-7-smartphones-is-an-environmental-debacle-that-could-show-us-how-to-recycle-ewaste/
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to have a phone designed so that it could be repaired or all the modules like the processor, the battery or the camera could be changed or upgraded to suit the user’s requirements or to cope with software updates? Of course, this is no news to the developers of the Fairphone. They have had a phone just like this for some years and Fairphone 2 is now available for preorder. It’s modular, repairable and contains no conflict minerals. Check it out at fairphone.com
RV Polarstern
Fancy getting away to sun, sea and sand? Well this trip won’t be for you. The Research Vessel Polarstern is setting off for a year-long voyage in the Arctic, where the sea will be frozen, there will be no sand except on the bottom of the ocean probably and by the end of the voyage it will be dark all the time.
Germany is going to sail its 120m-long research vessel into the sea-ice at the top of the world and just let it get stuck so it can drift across the north pole. Researchers hope to gather valuable new insights on the region where Earth's climate is changing fastest.
Last month the extent of Arctic sea-ice was the lowest ever recorded for a January (during the satellite era), with temperatures several degrees above the long-term average.
Prof Markus Rex will lead the so-called MOSAiC project - Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate:
"The decline of Arctic sea-ice,” he said, “is much faster than the climate models can reproduce and we need better climate models to make better predictions for the future.
"There is a potential that in a few decades the Arctic will be ice free in summer. That would be a different world and we need to know about that in advance; we need to know is that going to happen or will that not happen?”
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Professor Rex, from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, said: “The plan is to travel in summer when sea ice is thin and sea extent is much smaller.
We can travel along the Siberian coast and then make our way with our ice-breaker to the Siberian sector of the Arctic. Then we just stop the engines and drift with the sea ice.
“As the season proceeds the sea ice will grow and by late November we’ll sit in solid sea ice.
It will get colder; the ice will grow in extent and thickness. By then we’ll have set up a network of stations on the ice, some close and some 20 or 30km away.”
I understand that armed guards will be on hand to protect the researchers from polar bears. You must admire some people’s dedication to their science.
Following last week’s item on Marine Anthropogenic Litter you might be interested in this TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_rossiter_a_robot_that_eats_pollution?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tedspread
Jonathan Rossiter talks about a robot that eats pollution - and by the way, it generates electricity as well.
And finally - the single-event upset
Is your smartphone freezing or your computer crashing? Blame it on outer space. Also at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Bharat Bhuva, professor of electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University, explained that showers of cosmic particles from outer space are causing havoc with electronic devices. Millions of these particles strike your body each second, but despite their numbers, this subatomic torrent is imperceptible and has no known harmful effects on living organisms. However, a fraction of these particles carries enough energy to interfere with the operation of microelectronic circuitry. When they interact with integrated circuits, they may alter individual bits of data stored in memory. This is called a single-event upset or SEU. The damaged data is called a bit-flip.
If this causes a blue screen or makes your phone hang that’s one thing, but the consequences can be more serious.
In 2008, the avionics system of a Qantas passenger jet flying from Singapore to Perth appeared to suffer from a single-event upset that caused the autopilot to disengage. As a result, the aircraft dived 690 feet in only 23 seconds, injuring about a third of the passengers seriously enough to cause the aircraft to divert to the nearest airstrip.
Ritesh Mastipuram and Edwin Wee at Cypress Semiconductor have calculated that a simple mobile phone should only have one potential error every 28 years. However, a person flying in an aeroplane at 35,000 feet (where radiation levels are considerably higher than they are at sea level) who is working on a laptop may experience one potential error every five hours.
In Belgium a bit flip in an electronic voting machine added 4,096 extra votes to one candidate. The error was only detected because it gave the candidate more votes than were possible. Just imagine if that happened to a computer in a restaurant and it ordered up, say, an extra 4,096 chicken portions. How would Deliveroo cope?
So perhaps it wasn’t the Russians who fixed the US election. Maybe it was little green men in outer space.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-02-particles-outer-space-wreaking-low-grade.html#jCp
That's it for another week. I'm Anthony Day and you've been listening - and thank you very much for listening - to the Sustainable Futures Report. There will be another one next week.
I'm heavily involved in organising a conference at the moment and I can't tell you anything about it, but it will be exciting and interesting and have a lot to do with sustainability. It may happen in the autumn but it may not actually take place until Spring 2018. I'll keep you posted.
In the meantime, if you have a conference and you need a chair or a keynote speaker or you have a webinar and you need a facilitator or you're planning an award ceremony and you want a host you know where I am. Drop me a line at mail@anthony-day.com . If you have any comments or or suggestions or ideas that's the place to send them as well. Thank you for listening, thank you for your feedback. I look forward to hearing more in due course.
Posted by Anthony Day at Thursday, February 23, 2017 No comments:
It's All Up in the Air
Published as a podcast on Friday 17th February on iTunes, Stitcher and susbiz.biz
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a bee? Is it a robot bee? Or could it be a flying car?
Honey bees on brood comb
Yes, it’s Friday 17th February and here's this week’s edition of the Sustainable Futures Report with me, Anthony Day, with bees and robot bees, with flying cars and robots to help you park. Was Einstein right? There’s more about diesel and emissions tests and the implications of self driving cars for manufacturers. On the energy front Flamanville is in flames and Toshiba is in the news. The BBC is to measure the carbon footprint of every programme. Who said they were denialists?
In the US this week eighteen car companies have written to President Trump urging him to abolish the fuel efficiency target set by the Obama administration. The plan was that all new cars would have to achieve 54.5mpg by 2025. Quite a target, since the US gallon is some 17% smaller than the Imperial gallon used in the UK. This would save American motorists $1.7 trillion dollars over the lifetime of their cars but would cost the motor industry $200 billion over 13 years.
In the UK a new pressure group, Doctors against Diesel, is calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to take action to get diesel vehicles off the road as soon as possible. Particulates and nitrogen oxides from diesel vehicles cause up to 40,000 premature deaths in the UK each year, but they also cause lung disease and health problems in children. Just as well, then, that the EU has issued proposals for tighter controls for the testing of road vehicles. They make it quite clear that this initiative was partly driven by the Volkswagen scandal, when it was shown that cars from VW and certain other manufacturers had been programmed to give favourable results when running in a test environment.
The briefing paper is on the EU website:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2016/577978/EPRS_BRI(2016)577978_EN.pdf
The proposals are to tighten up the testing regime, make the testers completely independent of manufacturers and centralise control within the European Commission. According to the Commission, the expected reduction in non-compliant and unsafe automotive products on the EU market would deliver €13 billion of benefits a year, and the regulatory level playing field would benefit EU businesses.
There’s a long way to go before this becomes EU law and by then the UK may no longer be an EU member. Of course, any vehicles manufactured in the UK for sale in Europe will still need EU Type Approval.
There are some interesting statistics in the briefing paper. For example it starts by saying that the automotive industry is a major player in the European economy, accounting for 6.4% of gross domestic product and 2.3 million jobs in the European Union (EU). A chart shows that while Germany has the biggest car industry by value, the UK has by far the biggest automotive supply chain in Europe. In the UK there are 730 companies involved with vehicle or component manufacture: far more than France or Germany which each have fewer than 200. Presumably the UK exports components to Europe. Hopefully it will continue to do so after Brexit.
Just thinking aloud about self-driving cars. You can now get an app to use your ordinary car to help you find vacant parking space. This is improves the utilisation of parking spaces substantially and reduces the mileage involved in searching for them. When all car parks have been enabled for this technology the application will be integrated with your on-board satnav as standard. Now consider building this into a self drive car. The car will drop you at your destination and then go away and park itself. Consumers may decide that it's not worth owning a car when you can call one up whenever you want. In that case the only car that you need is the one that's nearest the door in the parking garage. These garages will no longer need access to each individual parking bay and there will be no need for pedestrian entrances, stairways or lifts. It has been estimated that the space required for parking in a given number of cars could be cut by up to 60%. And if the self-drive car becomes the taxi of the future, will we need them to be changed every three years? I’ve had my car for nearly 12 years and it’s as safe and reliable and performs as well as new. It’s also a hybrid, so it’s still far more economical than most newer cars on the road. If we treat our cars like taxis and not as must-have fashion statements to be upgraded nearly as often as a phone then we are going to need far fewer of them. Serious implications for a major industry. But much cleaner air.
Mind you, future may be the flying car, and it’s a lot closer than you think!
http://www.thenational.ae/business/aviation/dubai-to-launch-driverless-flying-cars-by-this-summer
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced on Monday that flying cars would be launched in the state in July this year. The flying car was exhibited at the World Government Summit in Dubai this week and the chief of the RTA said a summer start date for flights is envisioned.
The Ehang 184 (made in China) is fitted with a touchscreen to the front of the passenger seat displaying a map of all destinations in the form of dots. It has preset routes and the passenger selects the intended destination. The vehicle will then start automatic operation, take off and cruise to the set destination before descending and landing in a specific spot. A ground-based centre will monitor and control the entire operation.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands PAL-V have announced a vehicle which will not only fly but run on the road as well. According to reports it will achieve 31mpg on the road and have a range of 817 miles. That means it will need to carry 120 litres of fuel, which sounds like an awful lot for a two-seater three-wheeler. In the air the vehicle has a range of 310 miles. At around $500,000 I don’t fancy going up in one any time soon. With all that fuel I don’t think I’d be very happy to be underneath one, either.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/13/pal-v-begins-pre-sales-of-its-flying-car-starting-at-400000/
Carbon footprints at the BBC
The BBC has announced that from April this year all of its TV programming within factual, comedy, drama, entertainment and daytime will have to track their carbon footprint using the Albert carbon calculator. This, says the BBC, marks its commitment to reducing its environmental impact and is part of its wider sustainability plan.
https://calc.wearealbert.org
I hinted earlier that the BBC are denialists, which is not really fair. There is a problem, though, in that they always seek balance and give equal weight to both sides of the climate debate as though the credentials of both were equal. For example they may balance a former Government Scientific Advisor with someone like arch-denialist Lord Lawson. Lord Lawson has very strong views against the idea of man-made climate change and is presented as an expert. In fact he has no scientific qualifications and all he has to offer are unfounded opinions. The time has long gone for campaigners against smoking to be put up against smokers. That science is accepted. The same should be true of global warming.
Of course you could say, “Anthony Day has no scientific qualifications. Why should we take any notice of what he puts in the Sustainable Futures Report?” My answer is that when I quote facts I aim to quote them from people who are qualified to know the scientific truth. Wherever possible I include links to my sources and you can find them on the text version of the Sustainable Futures Report at anthonyday.blogspot.com.
A quick update on energy. As I said at the start, Flamanville has been in flames and Toshiba is in the news.
You will remember that Flamanville is the site of the new nuclear-power station being built to the same design as the proposed station at Hinckley C. As a result of technical difficulties it is seriously delayed and vastly over budget. There is already a nuclear power station operating on the site which is in Normandy, in Northern France, not far from the Channel Islands. Residents of Guernsey were concerned last week to see smoke rising from the site. An explosion injuring five workers had occurred and caused a fire. This had nothing to do with any part of the nuclear process, but the reactor was shut down in any case as a precaution. This comes at a time when there is controversy in France over the future of nuclear power. France has a higher proportion of nuclear electricity than almost any other country and has had to take all its stations down one after the other for extended maintenance following faults discovered as part of the construction process at Flamanville. There are proposals to cut back France’s nuclear power to 50% of national generation by 2025, from over 60%. Apart from the technical difficulties and the enormous cost of replacing the ageing nuclear fleet, it was pointed out that France has no uranium. 36% of the world’s uranium comes from Kazakhstan, with another 27% from Australia and Canada.
http://www.itv.com/news/channel/update/2017-02-14/deputy-reassures-islanders-plans-are-in-place-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-incident/
The news about Toshiba is that it plans to build no more nuclear power stations outside Japan. This follows news that its nuclear business, seen as its core activity, led to a $6.3bn write-down this week, and the resignation of Toshiba’s president. The company may be bankrupt: the story continues to unfold. This comes as unwelcome news to NuGen, the company responsible for building a new nuclear power station with Toshiba at Moorside in Cumbria. They say they are confident that the project will go ahead, but Toshiba has said that while it will continue to be involved in the development of the Cumbrian plant, it will not be willing to take on any construction risk. Delays seem inevitable and raise further doubts over the British government’s long term plans for keeping the lights on.
What about the Swansea Bay lagoon? We’ll talk about that next time.
Albert Einstein is supposed to have said, “If the bee disappeared from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”
He almost certainly never said it: the earliest reference to the remark dates from the 1990s, some 40 years after the great man died. Also, it’s not true. Although bees and other insects are vital to the pollination of many food crops, the staples like wheat and other cereals are pollinated by the wind.
I’m a beekeeper and I am very concerned that bees should be preserved. I'm currently nursing three colonies through the winter and looking forward to them pollinating all manner of plants and producing honey next summer. My reaction this week to the report in Cell Press cell.com of a robot bee was partly incredulity and partly anger.
Robot Bee
Yes, as the pictures in the paper showed, Japanese researchers have developed a drone-based unit which can carry pollen from flower to flower. The risk is that everyone will think that the panic is over, we don't need bees and we don't need to worry about them. The robots will do it all. That’s why I’m angry, because that’s just not true.
It seems that the unique element of this Japanese research was the creation of a gel which will pick up pollen and also allow it to be deposited on other plants. The picture in the paper showed the drone hovering over one of those enormous lilies that you get at weddings and other special occasions. A large flower with pollen-laden stamens which stick right out.
Now let's compare this with what happens in nature. In the height of summer each of my beehives will contain around 60,000 bees. Of these, some 20,000 will be regularly leaving the hives on foraging trips to collect pollen and nectar, and incidentally pollinating the flowers they visit. The rest of the bees have other duties within the hive. From this you can see that attempting to pollinate flowers by using drones is totally impractical. Quite apart from the number of drones that would be needed, will they ever build a drone small enough to pollinate apples and pears and cherries and oranges, and beans and peas, courgettes, raspberries, strawberries, aubergines, gooseberries, blackcurrants and all the rest? Drones will never manage to penetrate the tiny flowers of heather, and they will certainly never make any honey!
Threats to Bees
We probably won’t starve if the bees die out, but we will have a very plain diet. We need to take action to preserve them. What’s the problem? Colony collapse disorder is frequently mentioned; a situation where bees just abandon their hives and disappear. It happens widely among bee farmers in the US but seems to be less common here in the UK, at least among hobby beekeepers. It could be something to do with the way that bee farmers treat their bees in the US. They make much more money from hiring out their bees to farmers who need their crops pollinated than they do from producing honey. First is the almond harvest, so the hives are loaded onto trucks and driven across the country. The bees successfully pollinate the trees but almond trees produce very little nectar. The farmers feed them on corn syrup instead, which is not their natural diet. Once the almond blossom is over it's back on the truck for another journey to the blueberry fields or the apricot groves or whatever else needs pollinating. Typically they will be transported to at least four different locations in a season. As long as they can fly, they are worth money to the farmer. For the sake of hygiene, beekeepers in the UK will change the wax combs in each hive every two or three years. As I understand it, bee farmers whose main business is pollination just use the same frames until they fall apart.
Quite apart from how they treat their bees, beekeepers on both sides of the Atlantic are faced with pests and diseases. Varroa is a parasite which lives on bees, preferably on developing larvae, which means that when they develop these larvae may be infected or deformed. Twice a year, when there is no honey on the hive, we medicate the bees to keep the varroa down. Some of the bee diseases, but not many, can be treated. Veterinary medicines for bees are expensive and very carefully controlled, not least to make sure that the honey is never contaminated. In the worst cases all the bees in an infected hive must be killed to prevent them spreading disease to other colonies and then the hive is burnt.
The latest threat comes from the Asian hornet. This is a non-native species which has been moving steadily northwards through Europe and a nest was found in the UK in 2016. The Asian hornet predates on honey bees. It hovers outside the hive and attacks and carries off bees. When it finds a hive it will recruit reinforcements from its nest and between them the Asian hornets will strip the hive clean. They also have a very nasty sting so they are a threat to the beekeeper as well as to the bees. Various traps and a range of baits are recommended to keep the Asian hornet under control. We will learn from experience in the coming season whether any of them works.
Probably the most controversial issue regarding bees is the question of neonicotinoid pesticides. Neonics are systemic, which means that they are applied to the seed as a dressing and their active ingredients are transferred into the sap of the plant and probably the nectar as well. Studies have shown that neonicotinoids can affect the nervous system of the bee and in particular its navigation, which means it may fly out and never find its way back. Studies have not yet shown whether bees can get a sufficient dose of neonicotinoids from foraging in treated plants to affect them in this way. Some say that we should adopt the precautionary principle and ban neonicotinoids until such research is complete. The farmers say that without such pesticides their crops, principally oil seed rape, are at risk. The problem is that if neonics are banned the farmers may go back to spraying, which could have a far worse effect on bees - and other pollinating insects. It is open to question how this issue will be resolved particularly post Brexit. Politicians need to take the best advice. Not just the loudest. Avaaz, the international campaign organisation, is currently urging people to lobby the Canadian government to ban neonics. Friends of the Earth has also been very active in this area.
Warm Bees in Winter
I mentioned earlier that I am currently nursing three colonies of bees through the winter. This amounts largely to leaving them to their own devices. I have wrapped the hives in wire netting to keep out the woodpeckers and I've put a grill along the front to keep out the mice. Normally, bees would live on the honey that they've gathered during the summer. I've pinched that, so in the autumn I gave them lots of sugar syrup which they took down and stored in the hive. When the weather gets cold the bees all cluster together around the Queen. They do this to keep her as warm as possible and they consume honey and shiver their wing muscles to develop heat. Unfortunately, if it gets very cold the bees remain tightly in their cluster and if they have consumed all the honey close by they can fail to access the honey in other parts of the hive and in the colony will starve. My job is to watch out for this, and if necessary to put sugar fondant in the hive directly above the cluster so that the bees can find it.
In a recent paper published in the International Journal of Biometeorology, author Derek Mitchell suggests that clustering is not a natural behaviour of bees and occurs only as an emergency response to cold temperatures.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-015-1057-z
In his research he measured the temperature and humidity inside various types of hive - wooden hives, polystyrene hives and even a dung-coated straw skep. He also made a mock-up of a nest inside a tree-trunk, the sort of place where bees in the wild would naturally live. The results showed that the tree-trunk was by far the best insulated of them all, and that there was nowhere on earth cold enough - even in Siberia - to drive bees living inside a tree into a cluster. They were always able to maintain the ideal temperature and humidity, because the thickness of the wood retained the heat. Indications were that these conditions reduced the breeding success of the varroa mite by 98% and there was a smaller incidence of nosema, a common bee disease. The next best hive was the skep made of twisted straw and coated with dung. Behind that came the polystyrene hives and a very long way behind them came the traditional wooden hive which I and everyone I know uses. Given that the walls in a wooden hive can be less than 20mm thick, it’s a struggle for bees in winter to maintain their normal temperatures in excess of 30℃. Even in summer UK temperatures rarely reach 30℃, so the bees are having to expend energy, which could otherwise go into honey production, to keep the hive warm.
Derek Mitchell has built hives from 50mm Recticel, an insulating board used by the construction industry. He finds that this can give the same results as a nest within a tree. I’ve looked into building my own hives from this material, but the key thing with bees is that dimensions are crucial and I haven’t got the equipment for accurate cutting. Still, I may look into making covers for my wooden hives for next winter.
There has been controversy among beekeepers for years over whether it’s better to keep bees warm in winter. Mitchell’s research strongly indicates that it is. If we can remove one more stress factor from our bees by keeping them warm, maybe we can reduce the occurrence of colony collapse. And safeguard our apples and pears and all our other lovely summer fruit.
Here we are again at the end of another edition of Sustainable Futures Report. This is Anthony Day thanking you for listening and promising to be back next week with more news, opinions and ideas. Thanks for the feedback. It's been suggested that I should look at social issues relating to sustainability, and renewable energy, among other things. Keep the ideas coming and I’ll do my best to keep up. Oh, and do tell your friends to listen or look at the blog on anthonyday.blogspot.com. There’s no charge. I make nothing out of this except the knowledge that I’m able to inform like-minded people.
That’s it then, for this episode of the Sustainable Futures Report. I’m Anthony Day and thanks for listening.
Posted by Anthony Day at Wednesday, February 15, 2017 No comments:
It's not Cricket!
Find the podcast on iTunes or via www.susbiz.biz from Friday 10th February
It’s Not Cricket!
Cricket, (no the game, not the insect), could be at threat from climate change according to the MCC and the Climate Coalition. The government's White Paper on Brexit is published and Martin Baxter comments on the implications for the environment. News from Scotland about a lamp post which generates its own electricity and statistics from the SMMT about diesel cars. I also ask why marine anthropogenic litter is an issue for us all, whether Greenpeace has overstepped itself this time, I introduce another candidate for the Department of Missed Opportunities, and Sir David King warns that time is no longer on our side.
Yes, hello, this is Anthony Day with your Sustainable Futures Report for Friday 10th February. Welcome to all listeners in 40 countries across five continents. And a particularly special welcome to my listener in Haiti.
Brexit White Paper
The British government has published its Brexit White Paper setting out its “vision of what we are seeking to achieve in negotiating our exit from, and new partnership with, the European Union”.
Martin Baxter, Chief Policy Officer at IEMA, gave us his thoughts about Brexit and environmental legislation in the Sustainable Futures Report for 21st January. Now the White Paper is out he has some points to add and you can read his post on LinkedIn. The issues I picked out of his piece were
it’s not clear whether post-Brexit laws will be amended or repealed by Parliament or whether this power could be delegated to Ministers. This could have implications for environmental quality standards.
Nevertheless, it looks as though we will retain a link to European standards through BSI via CEN, the European standards body which isn’t an EU institution, but does accept mandates from the European Commission.
The Government has re-stated its commitment to enhancing natural capital over a generation. We’re still waiting for Defra's 25yr environment plan to provide more on this - any day now.
The Government re-states its commitment to the Climate Change Act 2008 and links this to support for international work to drive climate ambition.
The White Paper is silent on air quality – save that existing EU targets will be incorporated into UK law through the Great Repeal Bill. The government has recently been prosecuted (twice) for failing to meet these targets so we can only hope that in adopting them it intends to respect them.
As I said, the full text of Martin’s summary is on his LinkedIn page.
Wind-powered Lamp-posts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-38883539
News from Scotland this week that IT company, NVT Group, has joined forces with Own Energy Solutions to develop wind turbines which attach to lamp-posts. They foresee 'huge export potential’, in addition to the two million lamp posts in the UK which could be suitable for conversion. Metered, clean energy could be fed directly into the National Grid and the company said that as a result, each suitable lamp-post conversion would save half a ton of carbon being released into the atmosphere. I spoke to NVT and asked them how the units would cope with turbulence from passing traffic and whether they would be made in Scotland. They agreed to get back to me, but had not done so by the recording deadline.
The report reminded me of the lamp posts which I wrote about in my 2007 book, Will Climate Change your Life?
Photo: eets.co.uk
These were in Woking, Surrey, in the UK, and they not only had vertical wind turbines but also solar panels. They were designed to store enough energy in batteries to keep them running for 5 days in cloudy, windless conditions. Woking does not seem to have rolled out a large number, but manufacturers EETS eets.co.uk tell me that the product, the Hybrolight, is still available and each one is individually designed for its specific location. While the NVT units appear to require a grid connection, the Hybrolight can be totally free-standing and operate without an external power supply. In the 10 years since I wrote about these lamps we have seen dramatic developments in batteries, LED lights and solar PV technology, coupled with dramatic falls in costs. I’m sure there’s a bright future for this idea.
End of the road for diesel?
According to the Telegraph a scrappage scheme for diesel cars could be introduced within months as part of a plan to lower emissions and improve air quality across the country.
Apparently work is under way by officials in the Department for Transport and Defra on a scheme to offer cashback or a discount on low-emission cars if people trade in their old polluting vehicles.
Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, reportedly told industry experts that he supports plans for a scrappage scheme, but that it must be properly targeted.
It follows a dramatic warning earlier this month after a number of London boroughs issued black alerts for toxic air quality and the city's Mayor was forced to call on people to stay indoors and put off exercise until the levels improved. Westminster council introduced a 50 per cent surcharge on parking for diesel cars in a bid to drive them out of the borough.
The bad publicity has also hit diesel sales. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reports that while overall car sales increased by 2.9% in January, sales of diesel cars were down 4.3% on the same month last year. Sales of alternative fuel vehicles - pure electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid - rose by nearly 20%, but that’s easily achieved from a very low base. To put things in perspective, of the 175,000 new cars registered in January 7,300 were alternative fuel vehicles, but only 1,010 were pure electric. For the moment at least you should always be able to find a vacant charging point.
Marine Anthropogenic Litter
What is Marine Anthropogenic Litter and why should it concern us? In a recent presentation Dr Lucy Woodall of the Department of Zoology at Oxford University explained that it is pollution of the seas with the waste that we humans create. It’s easy to believe that all this pollution comes from shipping, but that’s far from the truth. In fact, almost anything which gets in to a watercourse ends up in the sea. That can be a plastic bag which blows into the river, a cigarette end washed into the gutter, agricultural run-off or industrial waste. Most of the material polluting the oceans starts on land. The oceans are becoming the world’s rubbish sink, with vast areas of rubbish swirling in the gyres, the circular currents in the southern oceans.
Pollution comes in various forms. Degraded plastic is a common sight on beaches, but micro-plastics, where plastics are eroded into minute particles or nurdles (lovely word) which are fragments of plastic raw material, can be a more serious threat. Plastics are generally considered inert, so they may be untidy but perhaps not dangerous. However, they may not be so benign. Of course as bags or ropes they can trap or choke sea creatures. Some chemical pollutants are hydrophobic and float on the surface of the water. Now they can be absorbed by the floating micro-plastics and then maybe ingested by fish. Eventually the contaminated micro-plastics may sink, taking chemicals to the bottom of the ocean to places where they would never normally reach.
Abandoned fishing gear can trap fish; floating plastics can form wind-blown rafts which can carry chemicals and organisms thousands of miles from their source to contaminate distant lands. Every fish we eat is likely to contain some micro plastics. There’s no data yet on how this will affect us or whether there is a safe daily helping of fish.
But there’s good news! There are many positive initiatives towards cleaning up the oceans, or at least preventing the the problem from getting worse. They’re all good ideas, but they probably need to be geared up 10-fold or more to have a significant impact. They include
http://baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-wheel/
Baltimore’s “Mr. Trash Wheel” combining old and new technology to harness the power of water and sunlight to collect litter and debris flowing down the Jones Falls River.
Banning plastic micro-beads from cosmetics and cleaning products
Banning plastic shopping bags
Rubbish-catching barges on London’s River Thames
MARPOL - the marine pollution convention governing shipowners.
The Sea Bin - a floating rubbish collector
One less plastic bottle - a campaign to remind you to take a bottle of water from home, rather than buying a new one every time
The Project Ocean Partnership, which includes among others the Zoological Society of London, Selfridges, Greenpeace and the Marine Reserves Coalition. They say: “By 2025 there will be one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish in the world’s oceans if nothing changes.”
There’s a clear message about plastic here. It’s in almost everything we use or wear. There’s a link here with the circular economy which I’ve mentioned in previous episodes. In the circular economy there is no waste: everything that is discarded becomes raw material for new production. If we re-use all our plastics we stop adding them to our waste stream, but much needs to change before that can happen. The fundamental issue is assigning responsibility for pollution. At present manufacturers have no responsibility for the disposal of their products - that’s the consumer’s problem. Manufacturers have no obligation to make their products capable of recycling or repair. Planned obsolescence is alive and well. If the consumer doesn’t throw the product away the consumer won’t be buying a new one. There are clear commercial pressures. After all, making, distributing and selling a new one supports jobs.
Solving this problem will need government intervention. We need to make it more expensive to throw things away. We need more plastic recycling facilities. Nearly all plastics can be recycled, but if there are no local facilities it’s rarely cost-effective to send them away for recycling - and the transport involves a carbon footprint. Despite this, there are simple things we can do and signs we are doing them. Now where’s that plastic water bottle I’m going to refill?
Climate Change is not Cricket
Lords, the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), announced this week that it had become the first cricket ground in the country to run on 100% renewable energy. The new Warner Stand, which will be opened in April 2017, is symbolic of MCC’s sustainability drive. This innovative structure, designed by architects Populous, includes photovoltaic roof panels for electricity generation and a state-of-the-art water collection and recycling system.
At the same time, new figures revealed the increasing disruption to cricket caused by extreme weather patterns. Extreme weather in December 2015, which has been linked to climate change, caused more than £3.5 million worth of damage across 57 cricket clubs. Two cricket grounds, at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire and Appleby Eden in Cumbria, remain unplayable.
The announcement at Lords launched the annual ‘Show The Love’ campaign from The Climate Coalition, and the publication of its ’Weather Warning’ report highlighting how extreme weather conditions are affecting some of Britain’s favourite places - from gardens to local pubs, rivers to our parish churches, iconic cliffs to woodlands. As well as cricket grounds.
Department of Missed Opportunities
I’m afraid this launch by the Climate Coalition qualifies for this week’s referral to the Department of Missed Opportunities
https://youtu.be/zD3YxrZdyzo
The Climate Coalition launched its #ShowTheLove campaign with a new video on YouTube (full link on the blog at AnthonyDay.blogspot.com .) “This is a love song,” they say, “like you've never heard before. It is the sound of the nation, of people across the country coming together to #ShowTheLove for the life they hold dear and want to protect from climate change.”
It’s certainly a piece of art with memorable photographs, poetry, music and celebrity cameos, but I wonder whether it will actually change anything. It closes with this message on the screen: “Climate change is threatening the things we love but it's not too late to protect them if enough of us show we care.” This stays on the screen for 5 seconds which is barely enough time to read it and then the website address appears, and shows up for even less time. In case you missed it, it’s sharethelove.org.uk which redirects to fortheloveof.org.uk. And this is a lavish website, but it’s not clear what it is or what it’s for - at least not at first sight. It reminds me of an article by Malcolm Gladwell who wrote about something like the curse of too much knowledge. For example, if you work in an organisation that uses jargon every day it becomes second nature and blindingly obvious, but it’s easy to forget that it means nothing at all to outsiders. I’m sure that whoever created this website knows what it’s about, but I don’t.
And then there’s that report,“Weather Warning”, but I couldn’t find it on the Climate Coalition website. On the fortheloveof site there’s a news link. But the top story is “Historic Climate Deal reached in Paris”. Yep, that was in December 2015. Nothing about any report. Then I eventually found the Weather Warning report behind a link called “Special Places Report”.
When I finally got into the report I found the foreword had been written by Professor Piers Forster, Director, Priestley International Centre for Climate at Leeds University.
You may remember him from the episode “Can we trust the IPCC?”, which appeared on this podcast on 10th November 2014. No? Oh, well it’s still available.
Anyway, it’s a detailed and well-presented report with a dozen case studies about special places in Britain under threat. It ends with reasons to be cheerful and on page 34 it tells us “the Show The Love campaign is encouraging people from all walks of life to show they care by wearing and sharing green hearts in the week of 7th-14th February to stir feelings, spark thoughts, begin conversations and show politicians that we are passionate about protecting our world - not just for ourselves, but for generations to come.”
A very important message, but tucked away at the back of a report which itself was almost impossible to find. And where can I get a green heart? From the website of course, but there’s no link from the home page to the green hearts page - you can only find it by googling. And when you’re there, it’s a guide to make your own. Do let me know if you see anyone wearing a green heart this week.
Dealing with climate change is a very difficult but vitally important message. The Climate Coalition has clearly put a lot of effort into all this, but I don’t think it’s worked. It’s an urgent message.
https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/130706/time-no-longer-side-uk-govt-climate-change-expert/
reports that Sir David King, former chief government scientific advisor, said this week that time is no longer on our side. “In a worst case scenario,” he said, “some of mankind’s greatest cities could flood, economies could collapse and millions of people be left starving to death.
“The risks of global warming are really quite severe. If we don’t manage this problem we are going to be faced with quite dramatic challenges to all of our economies.
“We could see sea level rises in the region of metres if we are very unlucky – and we have to look at the possibility of being very unlucky.
“Cities that are based on coastlines – Calcutta, Mumbai, Shanghai, New York and London – these are all at risk if sea levels rise.” He was speaking at the Energy Institute in Aberdeen, and went on to say, “Quite frankly it took us 21 years to get that agreement in Paris. We really have wasted an awful lot of time. Time is no longer on our side. We need to move on this and we need to move on this quickly.”
It’s generally impossible to motivate people with bad news. But Sir David cited money, the great motivator.
He claimed that the marketplace for innovative technology to decarbonise the energy industry was worth trillions of dollars over the coming decades.
He added: “We really need to be shifting away from fossil fuels to provide all of the energy that we need.” (Opportunity for wind-powered lampposts here!)
“We have to replace that with renewable energies, energy storage, smart grids – new clean technologies coming through to the market place.
“My message”, he concluded, “is that this new marketplace is the new wealth creating opportunity for the global economy.”
Greenwash backwash
Are you a member of Greenpeace? I'm not, although I do support some of their campaigns. I had an email recently inviting me to write to the bank HSBC to complain about their support of the palm oil industry. I did so, because I am aware that in Indonesia the industry has caused destruction of forests and widespread burning is causing soil erosion, atmospheric pollution, dispossession of local inhabitants and destruction of wildlife habitats. I got a detailed letter in response and it's made me think very hard about whether HSBC was as bad as Greenpeace claimed. Greenpeace also sent me a link which I could forward to my friends. (I didn’t.) I looked at it and it was a video of Stuart Gulliver, HSBC Group Chief Executive being interviewed at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. The footage was intercut with shots of construction equipment destroying forests and it made HSBC look very bad and complacent. I sought out the original video from the World Economic Forum and viewed the complete interview. It doesn't do Greenpeace any favours and demonstrates how they have distorted things through selective editing. If you want to check it for yourself, the video is called A New Chapter for Climate Action at weforum.org and the section in question comes about 9 minutes before the end. I’m all in favour of protest, but only when it’s justified and founded on fact. I’ll certainly think twice before responding to the next appeal from Greenpeace.
And so here we are again, at the end of another episode of the Sustainable Futures Report. I started this week concerned that I would have nothing at all to write about but it just goes to show that stories about sustainability bubble up all the time. There will be more next week. If there is anything in particular you'd like me to focus on drop me a line. mail@anthony-day.com.
Thank you across the world for listening. This is Anthony Day, and as I said before I'm always available to chair your conference, host your awards ceremony, facilitate your webinar or deliver a keynote speech. But for the moment, until next week, that's it.
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August 2013 Aviation Aerospace Defence Industry Air Force Military News
First production A400M Airbus Military transport aircraft flies in Turkish Air force colours 2908131
Posted On Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:44
First production A400M Airbus Military transport aircraft flies in Turkish Air force colours
The first production Airbus Military A400M new generation airlifter for the Turkish Air Force (TAF) has been painted and flown for the first time in its new markings. The aircraft is the first of ten ordered by Turkey and will be delivered in the coming weeks.
United States government agree to sell AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to Indonesia 2708131
Posted On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 11:41
United States government agree to sell AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to Indonesia
Indonesia obtained approval from U. S. government on its proposal to acquire AH-64 Apache combat helicopters with procurement document signed by Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro and visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel here on Monday, August 26, 2013.
New Chinese attack helicopter WZ-10 launched successfully its first air-to-air missile 2608131
Posted On Monday, 26 August 2013 10:09
New Chinese attack helicopter WZ-10 launched successfully its first air-to-air missile
China's first self-developed modern military attack helicopter WZ-10 has launched its first air-to-air missile and successfully intercepted low-altitude targets.
F-35C completes first in-flight refuel with United States Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft 2508134
Posted On Sunday, 25 August 2013 18:12
F-35C completes first in-flight refuel with United States Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft
On Aug. 20, an F-35 Lightning II carrier variant (CV) refueled from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 for the first time. With the completion of this test, the F-35C joins the A and B models in proving that all three variants of the F-35 can be refueled from a common tanker platform, despite different methods.
Russian Air Force will procure up to 60 Mi-28UB training variant of Mi-28UB night attack helicopter 1108131
Russian Air Force will procure up to 60 Mi-28UB training variant of Mi-28UB night attack helicopter
The Russian Defense Ministry will procure up to 60 Mi-28UB helicopters to improve the training of pilots for Mi-28N gunships, the Air Force commander said. The Mi-28UB is a combat training variant of the Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopter that can be operated both from the pilot's cockpit and the flight instructor's cockpit as it is equipped with a dual hydromechanical flight control system.
Two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft completed longest distance flight in the Pacific Region 0808131
Two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft completed longest distance flight in the Pacific Region
Two MV-22B Ospreys completed the longest distance Osprey tanking mission to date in the Pacific region Aug. 2-5, beginning from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and ending in Townsville, Australia. The aircrews conducted aerial refueling operations during tanking missions to extend their flight range, reducing the number of required landings and shortening the mission timeline.
Russian Air Force will take delivery this year of first fifth-generation T-50 fighter aircraft 0708132
Posted On Wednesday, 07 August 2013 12:30
Russian Air Force will take delivery this year of first fifth-generation T-50 fighter aircraft
The Russian Air Force will take delivery of its first fifth-generation T-50 fighter jet "in the third quarter of this year" for final state test flights starting in the fourth quarter, the service's commander Lt. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said, Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
Naval fighter aircraft F-35B STOVL for U.S. Marine Corps completes 500th vertical landing 0708131
Naval fighter aircraft F-35B STOVL for U.S. Marine Corps completes 500th vertical landing
The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft completed its 500th vertical landing August 3. BF-1, the aircraft which completed this achievement, also accomplished the variant’s first vertical landing in March 2010 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
Iranian Air Force overhauls two Mirage F1 fighter aircraft 0508131
Iranian Air Force overhauls two Mirage F1 fighter aircraft
Iranian experts in Shahid Nasser Habibi air base in Northeastern Iran managed to overhaul two mirage F-1 fighter jets, the Air Force announced on Sunday, August 5, 2013. The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French air fighter and attack aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation as a successor of the Mirage III family. The first prototype made its maiden flight on 23 December 1966.
French Air Force officially takes delivery of first A400M new generation of military transport aircraft 0208132
Posted On Friday, 02 August 2013 12:30
French Air Force officially takes delivery of first A400M new generation of military transport aircraft
Airbus Military has formally delivered the first A400M new generation airlifter, which is known in French service as the A400M Atlas, to the French Air Force, a milestone marking the beginning of the transformation of military air transport in Europe and beyond. This delivery, just authorized by the French procurement agency DGA, enables the aircraft, MSN7, to join tomorrow the French airbase of Orleans-Bricy where it will be based with the French Air Force.
Eurocopter delivered the first NH90 NFH Naval Helicopter to the Belgium Armed Forces 0208131
Eurocopter delivered the first NH90 NFH Naval Helicopter to the Belgium Armed Forces
Eurocopter delivered the first NH90 NFH (NATO Frigate Helicopter) to the Belgium Armed Forces, providing an advanced, highly capable and fully-qualified rotary-wing aircraft for this nation’s multi-role mission requirements. In addition to being the no. 1 NH90 NFH received by Belgium, it also is the first built at Eurocopter’s Donauwörth, Germany industrial site – demonstrating this facility’s capability to assemble and deliver these new-generation twin-engine helicopters.
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The reality of environmental protection in Poland
by Michał Olszewski
The political changes in Poland have claimed ecology as another victim. For conservative politicians, ecology is just a dangerous whim and they would very happily spend the money allocated to it elsewhere. Michał Olszewski takes a critical look.
Polish forests – and polish citizens – are in danger from the right’s short-sighted environmental policy (Photo by Jacek Karczmarz, edited, CC BY-SA 2.0)
For the Polish Right (both the politicians and the publicists who support them) environmental protection is the unwanted offspring of the democratic transformation. For as long as I can remember, conservatives have been very energetic in their opposition to decarbonisation, brandishing their tired-out arguments about the national economy, sentimental justifications or references to real improvements in environmental conditions in other areas. They have treated climate change as the invention of western lobbyists. Ultimately, one can even take environmental protection as a sign of madness, as the chairman of the Polish ruling party PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński, did in one interview.
Dirty air: Warsaw vs Brussels
After the Right took power, that rhetoric took on material form. The evidence is endless: a month ago the Minister for the Environment Jan Szyszko took the European Parliament to the European Court of Justice. The reason? Pollution emission standards are, according to Szyszko, excessive, and Poland has no intention of adopting them. Poland is a country in which winter brings some of Europe’s highest levels of smog. The country suffocates in a cocktail of particulate matter, carcinogenic benzo[a]pyrene, and nitrogen and sulphur compounds.
The fight for clean air has powerful opponents – mainly the mining lobby, which sells minimum-quality coal to Polish households. Added to that is the reluctance of politicians who believe that it is better to have terrible air and a market for failing mines than clean air and protesting miners. Local solutions do not help because they are not accompanied by systemic activities, which not only the PiS government fears. The Civic Platform (PO) government was also for years in no hurry to adopt any such activities.
As a result, there are winter months in which cities and mountain spa towns experience smog levels on par with those of Beijing. The case in the ECJ means that, instead of working on solving the smog problem, the government wants Brussels to retract its anti-smog policy. It is also doing this at a time when European operations are picking up the pace and there are consequences for those not taking up the fight against smog. Meanwhile, the Polish government is making a clear declaration that it will not be fighting smog. This is an attempt to halt the development, scientific research and local community efforts which were the vanguard of the fight against smog and which had expected the support of the state.
Moreover, Jan Szyszko has perpetuated the view of Poland abroad as a country that prefers to be wreathed in toxic smoke than to try to clear the air. It is a risky business that Poland may now be seen not only as a country detached from the EU politically, but also socially and in terms of health policy.
It is worth noting as an aside that with this decision, the minister has opened up another front in the fight against Brussels. For years Poland has failed to meet EU air quality requirements and ignored calls from Brussels. If Warsaw declares war on Brussels over smog, it will mean that smog has poisoned its ability to think clearly. Thus far, the Union has treated Poland lightly, but now it will try to enforce the meeting of obligations, or impose a gigantic fine on Warsaw.
The thorn in the forester’s side
The Białowieża Forest is another matter. In one of the most valuable lowland forests in Europe, mass fellings are taking place. The environment minister decided that the bark beetle plague supposedly killing the forest requires radical action. He has also banned tourists from entering the forest: it appears that there are so many dead trees that they might fall on hikers’ heads. Ecologists believe that it is a pretext to prevent outsiders from witnessing the effects of the fellings.
This game is nothing more than an attempt to show who is in control in the Białowieża Forest. The State Forests are a huge business, and even if they agreed to provide legal protection to the entire forest, their budget would not suffer. Escalation of the conflict seems unavoidable: as this text was being finalised, environmentalists had started a blockade of one of the fellings. The reasons for this opposition are not material, since the income from the Białowieża Forest is only a fraction of the huge budget of the State Forests. It is all about showing that, in Polish forests, it is the foresters who are in control.
Redistributing funds for coal
An equally current matter is that of the attack on regional environmental funds. They currently fall under the jurisdiction of local authorities, who spend the money on lowering emissions, rational water management and sewage. The Right is preparing an environmental protection bill for a law that would allow the government to take over a sum of €2.5 billion per year. Where will that money go? One can only speculate that they will be used to a lesser degree than they are currently to fund programmes for the elimination of obsolete coal boilers. After all, the present government is doing all it can to protect miners and the mining industry.
One spectacular example of the distrust of any energy other than coal is the stagnation in the Polish renewable energy sector. Despite the fact that installation costs are falling globally, and wind, water and biomass energy are on their way, Poland has decided to go in the opposite direction. PiS deputies have limited the possibilities to build wind turbines, drawing the immediate attention of the sector, which withdrew from plans for major investments. Activity in the solar industry also died: last year saw the installation of barely 28 MW in photovoltaics!
This list is incomplete, but it does emphatically show how quickly things can regress, even in a domain so seemingly obvious as environmental protection. The actions of right-wing politicians are destroying not only the constructs that have been built in Poland over the past 27 years, but they are also having a measurable impact on citizens’ health.
An exaggeration? Ask the Polish environment minister, who thinks the problem of smog is “theoretical.”
Michał Olszewski (born 1977) – journalist, reporter, writer. For more than twelve years he worked for Gazeta Wyborcza and Tygodnik Powszechny, where he concentrated mostly on environmental issues. He is engaged in a Krakow-based campaign against air pollution.
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Federal Civil Rights Officials Approve Plan to Improve Discipline in Kentucky District
By Evie Blad on February 28, 2014 1:01 PM | No comments
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has agreed to a resolution with Christian County Public Schools in Kentucky following an investigation that revealed vague and unclear school rules and higher rates of discipine for black students, the federal agency said Friday. In the agreement, the 8,700-student district also agreed to cut back on use of exclusionary discipline policies, like suspension and expulsion.
The federal investigation included a review of four years of disciplinary data, which revealed that most rules in "were open to interpretation and undefined, leaving administrators broad discretion in assigning sanctions." That left parents and students unsure what sort of discipline to expect and meant schools lacked critical safeguards to ensure that teachers and personnel were applying disciplinary policies in a non-discriminatory way, the Education Department said. From the report:
...[B]lack students were disproportionately overrepresented in referrals for disciplinary action and for assignment at least once to in-school suspension and out-of-school suspension in each of the four school years that OCR reviewed (2008-2009 through 2011-2012).
For the period under review, black students were also disproportionately overrepresented in referrals to School Resource Officers (SROs). For example, in school year 2010-2011, black students composed 33.8 percent of the district's enrollment, but represented nearly 65 percent of the students referred to SROs. OCR noted that, although expulsion was rarely assigned by the district, when the district took the extreme step of expelling students, over two-thirds of the expulsions were black students.
The investigation also revealed that black students were consistently more likely than white students to be assigned in-school suspension and out-of-school suspension when their first disciplinary referral was for violations that were subjective in nature, such as Deliberate Classroom Disruption, Disorderly Conduct, Failure to Follow Directives, and Profanity/Vulgarity. For example, in school year 2010-2011, black students were nearly 3.5 times more likely than white students to receive out-of-school suspension for Profanity/Vulgarity."
In the resolution, the district agreed to work to use alternatives to classroom removal in the discipline process; to seek help from experts in adopting strategies to reduce discrimination in school discipline; to provide student support to help prevent poor behavior; to review and revise its policies; to provide training to staff and education for parents; and to improve its data collection so it can better review its discipline practices.
Public school districts are required to abide by Title VI of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin by recipients of Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education.
After unveiling new guidance designed to help school districts meet their obligations under federal civil rights laws in Januuary, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder said they hoped the materials would help more districts to improve their discipline without the need for a federal investigation.
Critics of that guidance have said it strips districts of local control and that federal officials aren't providing the resources necessary to improve school climate and make such large-scale changes.
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Masterclass: Leading and Living To the Beat of Your Own Drum
Date: Saturday, 2 September 2017
Time: 9:30 - 15:30
Venue: Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), 26 Melville Road, Illovo
Topics: • Leadership: Do It Your Way - TBA
• Dare to be Different – Dudu Msomi
• Tips on Making Your Financial Life a Success - Samke Mhlongo
• How To PinPoint Your Uniqueness - Lebo Biko
• Driving My Way - Vuyi Mpofu
View speaker profiles here
This year we will also be hosting a Mentoring Walk, open to mentees between the ages of 13 and 25 years.
Delegates: Early-bird special of R450 per person up to 25 August 2017.
After 25 August, R550 per person.
Cost inclusive of welcome tea and coffee; picnic lunch and high tea
Mentees: Free for 13 to 25 year olds. Limited spaces. First come basis.
Programme Director
Rehema Isa
Rehema Isa is the CEO of Hadithi Media which exists to discover, develop and sharestories from the African continent.
Rehema Isa has a background in accounting and finance. Isa's experience spans major corporations in the financial and banking sectors. She has consulted for companies in various industries including power utilities, banking, the mining sector, government institutions, small businesses and IT companies, where she has led a number of strategic projects. Rehema’s areas of consulting expertise and focus are programme management, developing strategies for maximising business returns on investments, organisation design and development interventions, change management, Information Management strategy design and development, financial management, corporate governance, risk management, and innovative strategy design and implementation.
From 2009-2011, Rehema sat on the Board of the Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa, the country’s largest independent association for women in business. Rehema currently sits on a steering committee for Clean, Energy, Education and Empowerment women's initiative. Rehema works with executive women in the corporate and government sector as a leadership coach, promoting Value Realisation Management ™ for women in business.
CEO, Busara Leadership Partners
Dudu Msomi is the CEO of Busara Leadership Partners is a research-orientated strategic advisory and consulting company whose expertise is to facilitate the development and effectiveness of leaders to achieve their desired goals. Msomi is a Strategist, Leadership & Life Coach, Business Advisor, a Thought-Provoking, Attitude & Behaviour Shifting Speaker and Writer. Dudu Msomi has expertise and experience in strategy workshops facilitation, strategy formulation and implementation; coaching; designing and implementing transformation programmes in companies and industry bodies; marketing; advertising; communications; human resources leadership and corporate governance. Dudu’s experience spans diverse industries such as retail, advertising, financial services, Information, Communications & Technology consulting and professional, membership services.
Dudu Msomi is a Fortune Mentee Alumni having been selected by the US Consulate in South Africa to be part of the mentoring programme with FORTUNE/US State Department Global Women Leaders, initiated by Secretary Hilary Clinton in 2010. She was awarded the 2013 Laureate Award by the University of Pretoria as a GIBS Alumnus to honour her outstanding contribution to her field of expertise. Msomi is a Cherie Blair Foundation Mentee Alumni having completed the Mentoring Women in Business Programme in June 2016. Dudu Msomi is the Institute of Directors (IoDSA) Fellow Member.
Dudu Msomi is on the board of directors of the Financial Services Board (FSB) where she is also a member of the Licensing, Litigation and Audit Committees. She is also a Trustee on the Humulani Trust (Invicta Holdings) & Member of the GIBS MBA Alumni Bursary Committee. Dudu Msomi has a B.A. (Psychology and English) & B. A.Hons. (Media) (University of Natal, Dbn); Postgraduate Diploma in Advertising and Marketing (AAA School of Advertising); Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Governance (RAU); Programme for Management Development (GIBS) and a Masters in Business Administration (GIBS).
Relebogile Biko, better known as Lebo, is a seasoned marketing and business growth strategist, with over 15 years of strategy development and implementation experience. Her career began at Coca-Cola Southern and East Africa, where she held various branding and trade marketing roles before transitioning to strategy consulting, where she advised leading blue chip companies, parastatals and medium-sized firms in South and Southern Africa. Prior to joining Nedbank, Lebo was the founding member and Managing Director of BBDO Consulting South Africa, a top, global management consultancy focused on strategic marketing. Lebo Biko was the Strategy and Marketing Executive at Nedbank Business Banking, a division that services medium-sized businesses, many of which are family owned. She has a passion for SMEs and entrepreneurship, most specifically a drive to help women participate meaningfully in the economy.
Lebo has served as Chair of the Johannesburg Branch of the Businesswomen’s Association and as a national board member. She was the vice chair of the Nedbank Women’s Forum and an alumnus of Fortune/State Department Global Mentorship programme in the USA. She holds a B.Comm (Economics and Finance) and an MBA, both from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Vuyi Mpofu
A self - confessed petrol-head and road safety advocate, Vuyi’s passion for cars began as a toddler and was fuelled by her father and brother, both of whom are motor mechanics. However, in those days, it was not the preferred career option for a young woman and Vuyi studied marketing, PR and advertising instead. In 2007, whilst on sabbatical, Vuyi realized she was happiest dispensing advice to her friends (male and female) either about their driving habits or basic maintenance tips and decided to pursue her first love, as a career option. She spent a year researching and making inroads into the South African motoring industry, before launching Driving In Heels, the Evolution of Motoring in September 2010 with a weekly motoring article in Motor Mania, a motoring supplement in the Sowetan and The Times, as well as a weekly 20 minute radio show on Metro FM.
Vuyi Mpofu has developed her unique motoring brand into a familiar product, known within the motoring industry and by the public as a whole. She produces and presents the weekly motoring feature Car Loving Thursdays which airs every Thursday on 2000FM (16:20 on 97.2 – 100FM) and is a co-presenter of the he weekly motoring show, Power Steering, which airs every Monday on PowerFM 98.7 (11:30am). She is a regular (and opinionated) guest presenter on Buyer’s Guide & Ignition (DSTV Channel 189); a judge on the annual Women on Wheels competition panel and is the motoring contributor for Driven Magazine (distributed at airport lounges of major South African airports). Vuyi is also the motoring columnist for the popular magazine True Love, and is a member of the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists.
In late 2012 Vuyi broadened the Driving In Heels service offering to include business-to-business motoring based training workshops aimed at informing and empowering women about, the lifestyle of motoring aptly named Driving Divas – What Women Auto Know. After identifying a need for basic technical training for women about cars, Vuyi launched a 2nd-subsidiary to Driving In Heels called Gals Garage – Because Women Deserve Better in late 2013. Gals Garage is a short mechanical training workshop for women, aimed to educating car owners about basic car maintenance and the total cost of car ownership.
In 2014 Driving In Heels successfully qualified for TETA (Transport Education Training Authority) accreditation making it possible for companies engaging the services of Driving In Heels to claim back a portion of their training budget from the Skills Development Fund, whilst ensuring that their staff are better informed about road safety and life-saving driving practises.
Fun, knowledgeable and easy to understand, Vuyi is your average girl next door. She is a novice motorbike rider and describes herself as being fluent in 3-languages; heels, lipstick and cars. Having successfully turned her passion for motor cars, speed and all that makes cars tick into a full time job Vuyi has turned Driving In Heels and is subsidiaries into an interface between the motor industry and its female audience.
Samke Mhlongo
Samke Mhlongo is fast-becoming one of South Africa’s most recognizable personal finance figures. The Wealth Coach and founder of The Next Chapter (“TNC) Wealth Partners sharpened her expertise during her 7-year tenure as a private banker at Investec Private Bank, where she quickly became the go-to banker for public sector executives and high net worth entrepreneurs operating across different industries. It is during this time that Samke was heightened to the unique personal finance challenges and behaviours of South Africa’s middle class. This curiosity led to her conducting her MBA study into consumer financial behaviour.
The results led Samke to seek out additional platforms on which to share her expertise with a wider audience. Thus, the independent wealth coach, corporate speaker, media commentator, writer, and financial inclusion advocate was born.
Samke offers individual wealth coaching through her company TNC Wealth, and through Maureen Kark and Associates - a boutique wellness company to which she was appointed upon Investec Group CEO Stephen Koseff’s recommendation.
Samke is also a corporate speaker, panel moderator and MC. Some of Samke’s previous clients include SASOL, Anglo American, Standard Bank and Accenture. More notably, Samke was invited to give the keynote address at the 2017 CELD Woman and Finance Summit where she presented her talk titled “Managing Money and Building the African Woman’s Wealth Base”.
Referred to by CNBCAfrica as a “personal finance goddess”, Samke is a resident on VOW FM’s Business Wrap, regular commentator on CNBCAfrica, eNCA, Talk Radio 702 and PowerFM; finance contributor for DESTINY magazine, and a financial inclusion champion of The Graça Machel Trust.
In addition, Samke is the youngest board member of state-owned mineral research technology agency MINTEK, and serves on the Audit & Risk Committee.
Samke holds an Accounting degree from the University of Cape Town, Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Wits Business School, and an MBA from the same college completed with a dissertation titled Factors contributing to over-indebtedness in black South African females.
Zingisa Socikwa
Occupation: Co- Founder of Blackboard Africa
Zingisa Socikwa is young film producer and director of media related content. She is also the co-founder of Blackboard Africa a platform to inspire future ideas with a fresh perspective while maintaining a clear view of the mixed memories of our past. To create a space in real time and online where like-minded youth come together to write on this new board. She has a talent for turning simple and otherwise dull stories into beautiful artistry is harnessed through her love for music, theatre, photography and filmmaking.
Amonge Sinxoto
Occupation: Co-founder of Blackboard Africa
Amonge is an upcoming creative, writer and youth Marketer. She enjoys crafting beautiful stories and conceptualizing creative scenes for media publishing and online content. A leader and a young ambassador of national reformation. Amonge is passionate about cultivating young minds and stimulating youth entrepreneurship. She currently curates small workshops of youth focus groups on various societal topics namely: Youth Activism, Women Leadership, Women and Children’s Rights, Non-racial and Non-sexist society, Youth Trends & Social Media, Evolving Culture, Generation Gap, Politics and Future possibilities etc. Amonge is one of the leading creatives behind Blackboard Africa. She contributes regularly for online pages including engaging established inspiring leaders and artists. She conceptualizes visual content, writes stories, opinion pieces, interviews and feature reviews.
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Join the Crash, Embrace the Herd
By Elspeth Sweatman
A crowd. Photo courtesy Pxhere.
Like it or not, humans are herd animals. From the moment we are born, we crave interaction, communication, affection. To achieve these needs, we accept rules and traditions that help us to fit in, get along, and stay safe. Yet, we also know how dangerous going along with the group can be. Our news reels and Netflix queues are full of examples of innocent bystanders being duped, injured, or killed because they followed others. How can herd mentality be both the bedrock of our civilization and its undoing?
There are two types of herding: self-interested (when we copy the motivations and actions of others for our own gain) and collective (when we imitate others for the advantage of the entire group). When we go to a Giants baseball game at Oracle Park and follow the crowd to the entrance, that’s self-interested herding; we assume people know where they are going. When we stand on the right-hand side of escalators to let others pass on the left, that is collective herding; we know that it makes everyone’s public transport experience better.
Both types of herding are inherently human and can lead to positive and negative outcomes.
In 1930s Germany and Italy, influential and charismatic leaders created an us-versus-them mentality. The leaders’ rhetoric and citizens’ own psychology duped them into believing that intellectuals, Jews, and members of the LGBTQ+ community, among others, were the cause of the nation’s economic weakness. Afraid of the consequences of voicing an opposing view and being excluded, many people found themselves supporting a regime that persecuted these minority groups with discriminatory laws and institutions, violence, and mass extermination.
Crowd psychology can create economic collapses (The Great Depression, the 2008 Recession). But companies like Apple rely on herding to drive interest in the latest iPhone. When everyone has an iPhone, we feel that we must have this product in order to fit in.
Herding contributes to social contagions like mass hysterias, in which thoughts, emotions, and behaviors become infectious. In 2011–12, stress caused Katie Krautwurst, a teenager in Le Roy, New York, to develop Tourette’s-like symptoms; these uncontrollable twitches soon passed to her friend, then to her classmates, and then to members of her community. Eighteen people were affected, with doctors unable to find a cause.
To learn more about herd mentality, check out the Rhinoceros edition of Words on Plays, on sale at The Geary Theater and online.
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‘Holy Fire’ retreat ignites faith of middle schoolers from 10 dioceses
Attendees are seen at a Mass for about 1,800 middle school students and their chaperones at the Holy Fire retreat event Dec. 1 at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville. (CNS photo/Theresa Laurence, Tennessee Register)
By Theresa Laurence • Catholic News Service • Posted December 10, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — More than 1,800 Catholic middle school students and their chaperones from 10 dioceses danced and prayed their way through an interactive retreat event at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville, the largest of its kind ever staged in the diocese.
“I’m still in awe,” said Bill Staley, director of youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Nashville.
The daylong event Dec. 1, which included a mix of high-energy musicians and inspirational speakers, along with quiet moments for eucharistic adoration and prayer, was well-received by the youth, their parents and chaperones who attended.
Holy Fire, produced by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, is developed in collaboration with host dioceses, like Nashville as well as Chicago recently. Both events have been extremely well attended by thousands of young people.
“We had over 10 dioceses in all, including representatives from across Tennessee and three of four dioceses in Kentucky,” Staley told the Tennessee Register, newspaper of the Nashville Diocese. Groups also traveled from Birmingham, Alabama, north Georgia and Evansville, Indiana.
“I feel really good to grow this event into something great,” said Staley, who is already thinking about hosting a two-day event next year.
“It was a great experience and we can’t wait to go back next year,” said Cindy Sabatino, director of religious education at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, who brought a group of 30 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to the event.
One of the high points of the day for Sabatino and her group was adoration. “Many of them had never experienced adoration like that” among such a large group of peers, she said. “They can be intimidated to pray in front of their peers,” she said, but here they were encouraged to let their guard down and “just be with the Lord” in the moment.
The entire experience of being with so many Catholic young people for a full day of Catholic musicians, speakers and prayer was new to many Holy Fire participants, young people and their parents alike, Staley said.
“Many parents joined for the whole day,” he said. “A lot of them didn’t have an experience like this (in their own childhood), which is a wonderful benefit of the program.”
Holy Fire is the newest evolutionary step in the Diocese of Nashville’s annual confirmation preparation for middle schoolers, and now reaches beyond the students preparing for the sacrament.
Partnering with the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry enabled Nashville’s youth ministers to stage a much larger-scale event than they could have done alone, complete with professional sound and lighting designs, big screen video and multimedia presentations.
Holy Fire’s mission is “to set young people ablaze with the love of Christ and inspire them to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in the world, to embrace their baptism and engage with the relevant and powerful Gospel of Jesus.”
Speakers and performers from the day included: Joe Melendrez, Noelle Garcia, Dom Quaglia, Sarah Hart, the Cimorelli Sisters and the Sarah Kroger Band. Throughout the day, participants also had the opportunity to receive the sacrament of reconciliation, renew their baptismal promises, and talk with exhibitors, which included the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, among others.
Nashville Bishop J. Mark Spalding, who drove back to Nashville from Cincinnati just in time to make the closing remarks at the Holy Fire Mass, encouraged the young people to be examples pointing towards Christ, “to bring the love of Christ into your home and community.”
“I think the bishop’s message was very meaningful,” said Sabatino, encouraging the youth to go forth and have a positive influence. “He’s young, he’s motivated, he inspires the kids.”
Overall, Sabatino said, her group wasn’t sure what to expect going into the day, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Holy Fire “put them in a place where they could open their hearts to Jesus,” she said.
Laurence is a staff writer for the Tennessee Register, newspaper of the Diocese of Nashville.
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Monday Memos: 2015 Billboard Music Awards Recap
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Hello people of the internet!!! On today’s ‘Monday Memos’, we are going to recap the ‘2015 Billboard Music Awards’ (yay!!!). This year’s ‘Billboard Music Awards’ were hosted by rapper/actor Ludacris, and model Chrissy Teigen, and was definitely a show that we’ll be talking about for the rest of the year. One part of the show that we were all looking forward to was the premiere of Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’ music video. With a large cast of celebrities such as: model/actress Cara Delevingne, supermodel Cindy Crawford, and actresses Hailee Steinfeld, Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Zendaya, and many more. The music video was very action packed and had a very cool futuristic spy feel to it. This video was definitely unlike anything we have seen from Taylor, and really shows her evolution as an artist. Now let’s move on to the awards, and finally the performances (I’m only going to include a few of the awards & performances that were shown during the show, because if I included everything, I would have y’all here all day. If you want to see the full list of winners and performances, check out billboard.com). So are y’all ready? Ok, let’s go!
Top Duo or Group: One Direction
We all had to see this one coming because One Direction has been an unstoppable force ever since their first single dropped in the U.S. They have won tons of awards, broken numerous records, and were recently named the first band in U.S. Billboard history to have their first four debut albums debut at #1.
Top Billboard 200 Album: 1989 by Taylor Swift
Ok now we all know how well 1989 did this year, but honestly what else would you expect from Taylor Swift!?! With hit singles that stayed in our heads all year like Shake It Off, Blank Space, and Style, it’s no wonder that 1989 has ruled 2015 so far.
Top Male Artist: Sam Smith
Now if you’ve listened to the radio at all this year, you are very familiar with Sam Smith’s music. His debut album ‘In The Lonely Hour’ went platinum, and won Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2015 Grammy Awards. Needless to say he’s had an AMAZING year.
Top Female Artist: Taylor Swift
With the success of 1989, it’s obvious that Taylor Swift would have a great chance of winning this award so I honestly don’t think that anyone would be surprised here.
Top Hot 100 Song: ‘All About That Bass’ by Meghan Trainor
Now you know you’ve been singing along to this one ever since it first came out. The fact that ‘All About That Bass’ has gone platinum 6 times in the U.S. definitely proves that Meghan deserves this award. I honestly don’t see this song’s popularity dwindling, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Top Artist: Taylor Swift
Again it’s Taylor Swift, she seriously ruled the radio waves this year so none of us are even surprised here.
Nick Jonas ‘Jealous’:
So first of all we have to talk about is Nick Jonas’ performance of ‘Jealous’. This song was a really big hit for Nick this year, and the excitement of the crowd showed that this song is still a hit with fans. This performance had a lot of cool elements to it, such as awesome backboard graphics that really made this performance stand out. All in all this was a really cool performance that fans loved from beginning to end.
Mariah Carey ‘Vision of Love’ & ‘Infinity’:
Mariah Carey wowed us next with a performance that had everyone’s attention. She began her performance with her debut hit single ‘Vision of Love’, which is a song that we all still hold near and dear to our hearts. Next up we got to hear her new track ‘Infinity’. This performance definitely showed that Mariah is still able to impact is with her music, and will be an artist that we’ll keep coming back to for infinity.
Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth ‘See You Again’:
Ok now this is a song that we all have had on repeat for a while now and honestly you have to admit that you still cry whenever you hear it (Honestly how many times have you seen that music video featuring Paul Walker and just started to cry. #RIPPaulWalker). At the award show Wiz and Charlie were joined by YouTube star Lindsey Sterling who, as usual, blew us away with her amazing violin skills as. The vibe of the performance was very intimate and chilled which definitely made us all want to seriously cry. The emotionally charged lyrics were definitely front and center during this performance, due to Charlie and Wiz’s ability to deliver the song in a way that made us all feel the message of the song (seriously when Charlie started choking up during the song, I thought that I was going to lose it).
Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea ‘Pretty Girls’:
This was another performance that everyone was looking forward too, because we love Britney, and we love Iggy, so when you put them together it’s just perf! This performance had a very 80s feel to it, and was such a fun number to watch. It was so interesting to see these two collab because their musical styles are so different, so it’s exciting to see what they will each do next.
Tori Kelly ‘Nobody Love’:
The ‘Kia One To Watch Artist’ Tori Kelly was up next, and she really showed how talented she truly is. It was amazing to see her completely captivate the audience without any special staging or effects. It really made you feel like you were able to personally connect with Tori and fall even more in love with her music. This performance made me really excited to see what’s next for her.
Simple Minds ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me):
This was certainly one of the night’s most talked about performance, due to the fact that the cult classic movie ‘The Breakfast Club’ turned 30 this year. This performance had a very rock concert sort of vibe and the crowd was just completely hooked from beginning to end. It’s really fun to see so many different people rocking out to their favorite song, and the energy was definitely brought up A LOT during the this performance.
Imagine Dragons ‘Stand By Me’ (Ben E. King cover):
The last performance that we’re going to discuss is Imagine Dragon’s amazing performance of ‘Stand By Me’. This is a song that we all know and love, so it was so great to see that Imagine Dragons did their best to keep the original feel of the song intact, and molded their musical style to best fit the song. This was another tear jerking moment due to Ben E. King’s tragic passing recently, but I thought that this was a beautiful way for his incredible talent to be honored.
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Woodmere Art Museum’s captivating summer exhibitions celebrate the past, present and future of Philadelphia’s art and artists
The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition on view June 14-September 1; Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art on view July 26-October 26
PHILADELPHIA — This summer, Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill will unite past, present and future artists with two captivating exhibitions that celebrate Philadelphia’s longstanding role as a center for artistic innovation and talent. Showcasing the bold future of the city’s new generation of artists, The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition (on view June 14-Sept. 1; open house, Sat., June 28, noon-4 p.m.) includes the work of 50 artists who live within a 50-mile radius of Philadelphia.
“This is an important exhibition because it represents Woodmere’s continued engagement with the exciting world of contemporary art that is constantly evolving,” says William R. Valerio, the Patricia Van Burgh Allison Director and CEO of Woodmere. “The Woodmere Annual makes Philadelphia a great place for artists to live and work because it gives many their first opportunity to exhibit in a museum.”
This year’s juror, local artist Sarah McEneaney, selected nearly 80 works that humorously and poignantly explore such diverse themes as the urban landscape, isolation and self-reflection. McEneaney explains, “In the art world today,” she says, “there’s all kinds of work being made, and it’s all being looked at, considered, talked about. There’s not one ‘ism’ of the day — if anything, that’s the point: Go out there and make your work, and it can be any kind of work. You just have to work at it and work at it.”
Meanwhile, the exhibition Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art (on view July 26-Oct. 26) reflects on the life of an incredible artist who lived in three centuries (1890-2002), and whose work spanned the length of the 20th century and depicted its major issues and events, including women’s suffrage and the struggle of immigrants and the working class. Curator Gail Levin, distinguished professor of art history, American studies and women’s studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College, organized the Bernstein exhibition in an effort to recover the artist’s significant contribution to American life. Levin said she discovered Bernstein — little known outside the art world — while researching American realist Edward Hopper. Levin explains, “The exhibition explores how fame is fleeting, but shows that the quality of Bernstein’s work has outlived fad and fashion.”
Woodmere Art Museum is located at 9201 Germantown Ave. Admission to special exhibitions is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and FREE for students, children and Museum members; exhibitions in the Founder’s Gallery and Helen Millard Children’s Gallery are FREE. (Woodmere offers free admission on Sundays, including all special exhibitions.)Museum hours are: Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.–8:45 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. For more information, visit woodmereartmuseum.orgor call 215-247-0476.
About The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition
The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition(on view June 14-Sept. 1) features work by 50 artists living within 50 miles of the Museum, including Betsey Batchelor,Mariel Capanna,Kevin Finklea,Catherine Mulligan,Seneca Weintraut and many more. This year’s juror, Philadelphia artist Sarah McEneaney, has assembled a cohesive presentation of nearly 80 works of art. McEneaney’s paintings and a number of her preparatory sketches will also be on view, and the artist will choose objects from Woodmere’s permanent collection that relate to the show’s themes for a small installation in the Stairwell Gallery.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an online catalogue featuring a discussion with McEneaney about her selection process and the various themes that emerged during the organization of the show.
Sarah McEneaney, born 1955 in Munich, Germany, attended The University of the Arts and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. McEneaney’s paintings and prints are in many public collections including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, The Neuberger Museum SUNY Purchase, Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson and Johnson and Microsoft Corporation. Sarah McEneaneyis represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York and Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Woodmere Art Museum, the only institution devoted solely to the art and artists of Philadelphia, has organized The Woodmere Annual for over 70 years. Juried by one of Philadelphia’s distinguished artists, The Woodmere Annual explores the unique transformations that occur in contemporary art in Philadelphia.
About Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art
Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art(on view July 26-October 26) is a retrospective dedicated to the work of Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002), an artist who lived in three centuries, and whose work spanned the length of the 20th century. Bernstein was an artist who achieved celebrity for her style of urban realism developed in the first decade of the 20th century that was often linked by critics to the Ashcan School, although she was never formally affiliated with the Ashcan painters.
Born in Cracow, Poland, Bernstein and her parents immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia in 1891. Bernstein attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art & Design) before moving to New York in 1911. She exhibited with painters such as William Glackens, John Sloan and Robert Henri, and was a founding member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of women artists active from 1917 to 1945.
Bernstein is known for her realist depictions of major issues and events of the 20th century, including women’s suffrage and the struggle of immigrants and the working class. Her expressive canvases also depict diverse locales such as jazz clubs, Carnegie Hall, Coney Island and Gloucester, Mass., where she became a major participant in the vibrant art community located there.
The traveling exhibition opened in New York City in October 2013 and traveled to The Phillips Museum of Art of Franklin and Marshall College before coming to Woodmere Art Museum, its only Philadelphia venue. The exhibition will feature 44 paintings created between 1912 and 1972 and is accompanied by a catalogue that includes thematic essays by Michele Cohen, Patricia M. Burnham, Elsie Heung, Sarah Archino, Stephanie Hackett, Gillian Pistell, and Gail Levin. It features more than two hundred images, including full-color reproductions of her art and rare documentary photographs, many published for the first time. It also includes a detailed chronology of Bernstein’s life, a list of public collections, and a list of her writings.
Friday Night Jazz:
Michael Jackson: A “Thriller” Night
Friday, May 30, 6-8 p.m., $22 ($12 for members)
The King of Pop was a truly universal artist whose music crossed categories, colors, continents and ages. Join vocalist Roy Richardson as he navigates Jackson’s career, starting with his early days with the Jackson 5.
Nina Simone: High Priestess of Soul
Friday, June 13, 6-8 p.m., $22 ($12 for members)
Vocalist Tonya Lynette brings to life the edgy and hypnotic style of Nina Simone, performing songs like “Four Women,” “I Remember You” and others.
Special Event:
Art Uncorked: Wine + Painting = Fun
Friday, June 6, 7-9 p.m., $35 ($30 for members)
Create a one-of-a-kind work of art to decorate your home or office while sipping on a relaxing glass of wine in a fun and social atmosphere. An easy step-by-step demonstration will be given and all art materials are included.
Jammin’ Jazz Piano
Join us as we end this season with one of the great traditions of jazz: the jam session! Pianists Adam Faulk and Jeff Knoettner will play classic tunes like Count Basie’s “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” Thelonious Monk’s “Well, You Needn’t” and Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five.” Musicians in the audience will be invited to jam with the band.
Exhibition Opens:
The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition
June 14-September 1
Tales of Philadelphia’s Art World: Past and Presentwith Nathaniel Popkin
Saturday June 14, 3 p.m., $15 ($10 members)
Reflect on Philadelphia’s art scene, past and present, with author Nathaniel Popkin, who will use Woodmere’s collection and his recent novel, Lion and Leopard, to talk about Philadelphia in the early 1800s, exploring the artistic clashes, interactions and inspirations between artists Charles Willson Peale, John Lewis Krimmel and others. Popkin will conclude his talk with a gallery tour of works by contemporary artist Sarah McEneaney, juror of this year’s Woodmere Annual.
Opening Reception, The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition
Saturday, June 28, noon-4 p.m., FREE
Gallery Talk:
Gallery Talk with Juror Sarah McEneaney
Saturday, July 12, 3 p.m., FREE
Join Sarah McEneaney, juror of The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition, for a gallery talk and discussion of the artists and works on view. McEneaney, an artist and community activist, lives and works in Philadelphia. She is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, and Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art
July 26-October 26
Gallery Talk and Lecture:
Theresa Bernstein, Artist of the Twentieth Centurywith Michele Cohen
Art historian Michele Cohen will reflect on the life and artistic career of Theresa Bernstein, exploring how her connections to Philadelphia, New York and Gloucester contributed to her artistic development. A close friend of Bernstein’s who curated the first major museum exhibition of her work at the Museum of the City of New York in 1990, Dr. Cohen will provide a deeper understanding of Bernstein as a woman painter in the 20th century. The consulting scholar for the current exhibition, Dr. Cohen’s essay “Theresa Bernstein in Gloucester: Shaping Artistic Identity” is included in the exhibition catalogue.
Closing Reception, The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition
Monday, September 1, 2-4 p.m., FREE
Open House, Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art
Saturday, September 13, 4-6 p.m., FREE
Includes lecture by Gail Levin.
Also on view:
Jessie Drew-Bear: Stories and Dreams
March 22 – July 13, 2014
Women and Biography: Selections from Woodmere’s Permanent Collection
Through June 1, 2014
Bold Strokes: Quita Brodhead
About the client:
Housed in a 19th-century stone Victorian mansion on six acres in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Woodmere first opened its doors to the public in 1940. The building, grounds and the nucleus of the Permanent Collection are the benefactions of Charles Knox Smith (1845 – 1916), who wished “to awaken the spirit of, the appreciation of, and the knowledge of art … in the City of Philadelphia and surrounding territory.” Today, the Permanent Collection consists of more than 3,000 works of art, celebrating the art and artists of Philadelphia.
Woodmere’s core collection includes important paintings by renowned artists such as Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber, Walter E. Schofield, Benjamin West, Frederic Edwin Church, Violet Oakley, Arthur B. Carles and many more. Woodmere’s nine galleries and salons, including a grand rotunda and a uniquely designated Helen Millard Children’s Gallery, provide space for exhibitions and programs that serve the entire family. In the George D. Widener Studio, a converted carriage house, a year-round roster of classes provides outstanding art training to children and adults. The recent addition of the Children’s Garden provides participants of Woodmere’s Summer Arts Community Program with outdoor space to display and enjoy works of art. The Helen Millard Children’s Gallery also showcases exhibitions of student artwork from local schools.
Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
Corner of Germantown Avenue and Bells Mill Road in Chestnut Hill
Museum Hours:
Beginning Sept. 8, Woodmere offers free admission on Sundays, including all special exhibitions, but excluding special events such as Classic Sundays music series.
Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Friday, 10 a.m.-8:45 p.m.
Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission: Special exhibitions are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, FREE for students, children and members. Related programs and events are FREE, unless otherwise noted.
Information: (215) 247-0476 or visit www.woodmereartmuseum.org
Accessible by public transportation: From Center City Philadelphia, take the R8 Chestnut Hill West regional rail train to the end of the line. Turn left on Germantown Avenue and walk for .8 miles to Woodmere. For detailed driving directions, click HERE.
Client Contact Info:
Museum Website: woodmereartmuseum.org
Official Facebook Page: facebook.com/WoodmereArtMuseum
To request photos, interviews and more information, please contact:
Canary Promotion, 215-690-4065
Carolyn Huckabay, carolyn [at] canarypromo [dot] com
Rachel Olenick, rachel [at] canarypromo [dot] com
9/2/2014 Fall at Woodmere Art Museum Brings Annual Straw Maze, Family Activities, Halloween Collectibles and Schofield Landscapes
8/20/2014 Woodmere Art Museum Presents Major Retrospective of Renowned Landscape Painter Walter Elmer Schofield
7/15/2014 Woodmere Art Museum Presents First Retrospective of Pioneering Philadelphia Painter Theresa Bernstein, Chronicler of Twentieth Century Urban Life
5/21/2014 Woodmere Art Museum’s captivating summer exhibitions celebrate the past, present and future of Philadelphia’s art and artists
5/19/2014 Hundreds of Philadelphia Second-Grade Students See Artists Working in Metal, Paint, Wax and Dyes at Woodmere Art Museum; Thirteen Local Schools to Visit May 19 – 22
3/5/2014 Woodmere Art Museum retrospective showcases Philadelphia artist Jessie Drew-Bear’s joyful, unrestrained body of work
1/28/2014 Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates the Distinguished Eight-Decade Career of Late Philadelphia Abstract Painter Quita Brodhead
1/6/2014 Retrospective at Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates the Life and Work of Local Artist Martha Mayer Erlebacher (1937-2013)
10/28/2013 Philadelphia’s Woodmere Art Museum Hires Architect to Develop Master Plan for Museum’s Buildings and Grounds
10/22/2013 Woodmere Art Museum celebrates Philadelphia’s tradition of printmaking with On Paper: The Gift of Ann and Don McPhail
10/17/2013 Woodmere Art Museum Lights Up the Holidays with Family Workshops, Movies, Exhibitions, Live Music, Shopping and More
9/27/2013 New Season of Live Jazz and Classical Music at Woodmere Art Museum
8/28/2013 Woodmere Art Museum Welcomes Families with New Straw Maze and Weekly Art-Making Activities This Fall
8/22/2013 Woodmere Art Museum’s Wild Flowers: Paintings and Drawings by Peter Paone a visual diary documenting an artist’s evolution
6/24/2013 Woodmere Art Museum’s The Poker Game and Its Circle pays tribute to a local group of influential artists of the 1960s and ’70s
5/8/2013 Woodmere Art Museum Caps Season of Music with Poignant Tribute to Jazz Icon Dexter Gordon on June 21
5/2/2013 Young talent dominates Woodmere Art Museum’s In Front of Strangers, I Sing: 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition
4/22/2013 Woodmere Art Museum offers myriad summertime opportunities for kids and families to connect with art and nature
2/22/2013 Woodmere Art Museum exhibition The Promise of Peace: Violet Oakley’s United Nations Portraits captures a pivotal moment in American history
1/11/2013 Woodmere Art Museum Announces New Season of Music
12/17/2012 January Exhibitions Showcase the Growth of Woodmere Art Museum's Remarkable Collection of Works by Philadelphia Artists
12/6/2012 Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates Holiday Festivities with special events for Art Lovers and Families
9/27/2012 Music at Woodmere Hits New Notes in Fall 2012 Season
9/6/2012 Harry Potter-Themed Maze Returns to Woodmere Art Museum
9/4/2012 Woodmere Art Museum presents internationally renowned painter Louise Fishman, on view October 13, 2012-January 6, 2013
6/13/2012 Summer Exhibitions at Woodmere Art Museum Showcase Multifaceted Roles of Philadelphia Artists Alex Kanevsky and Doris Staffel
4/19/2012 Icons of Philadelphia Jazz and Rising Stars of Classical Music Featured in Spring Music Series at Woodmere Art Museum
4/2/2012 Barnes scholar Salvatore Pinto and haunting narrative art showcased in Woodmere Art Museum's two spring exhibitions
1/31/2012 Two new exhibitions at Woodmere Art Museum celebrate Philadelphia Artist Elaine Kurtz and nature-inspired art
1/31/2012 Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates Iconic Artists and Composers in Weekly Jazz and Classical Music Series
1/23/2012 Woodmere Art Museum announces appointment of curator Matthew J. Palczynski,
10/11/2011 Woodmere Art Museum Announces the Acquisition of Abstract Bouquet by American Modernist Painter Arthur B. Carles
9/26/2011 Two exhibitions now on display at Woodmere Art Museum showcase the richness of abstract painting by Philadelphia artists
9/26/2011 Woodmere Art Museum presents Friday Night Jazz and Classic Sundays
9/20/2011 "Owl's Eye" Hay Maze at Woodmere Art Museum Opens Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays through October 30, 2011
9/15/2011 Woodmere Art Museum Names John Affleck Board President
9/8/2011 Response, Remembrance and Reflection, Artists of Philadelphia and the 10th anniversary of 9/11
8/22/2011 Popular Hay Maze returns to Woodmere Art Museum Sept – Oct
7/14/2011 Woodmere Art Museum offering free admission all summer
6/1/2011 Students from Lingelbach School and Philadelphia School exhibit original artwork at Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill
5/6/2011 “Experience Jazz at Woodmere”in May and June, Woodmere Art Museum extends wildly popular Friday night jazz series
3/25/2011 Woodmere Art Museum presents Friday Night Jazz series in April
3/22/2011 Woodmere Art Museum Announces New Hours & Spring Exhibitions
11/2/2010 Woodmere Art Museum presents John Folinsbee and American Modernism November 6, 2010 – March 6, 2011
Canary Promotion
24 E Glenside Ave, 1st Floor
Glenside , PA , 19038 USA
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